Arizona republican., 1902-05-02
TRIAL OF FRANK CLINE
On a Charge of Trying to Break Out
 of Jail

The trial Of Frank Cline indicted for an attempt to break Jail began in dis trict court yesterday morning. The story of this intended jail delivery has been often told. Along last March Cline. Eugene DaIy. William Ellsworth. Thomas Welsh We're inmates 0f th- county j3il. Another prisoner Dy the name of -'Cherokee" or John Heron was discharged on ,A= u.crains Of March 26.
 On the afternoon cr that day he pre- selted at the office of the sheriff an order signed by Cline for & to be paid out e. soT.e funds found ol Cline at the time Of his arrest. Heron w;.s asked rchy he had not presented the Crder al the time of his release and te made the unreasonable cSpIana- tion that h. had forgotten f. It was learned later al the sh=riff-s ofiic- that Heron did rot take the order out oi jail with him but that it had been pass to him through the jail window
 In q day or two word reached the sherih's office that there wa.s an un- ususal activity in the market for thosv little steel saws used in cutting iro.. One firm sCl5 nine uf ttsm in two ir- staIImeuts t1 one man. That man Was found to be Heron. Abcat this tim" the sheriff learned from still another source that Heron had toid a man n.- Knew that h. s-as going to invest & which Cline had eiven hi-1 in steel saws
 All the prisoners named above are said to nave been involved in this con spiracy except Sloan. Wilo net only was taking TO part in the move fer freedom but was prepared t0 tell the sheriff what was going on inside. He said h. had overheard the conversation ba- tween D&ly, Heron and Cline about the g. order and tho. purchase Of tie saws. His story vas ccrrcbcrative of all that the sheriff had learned on tn, outside. Heron had pass=d two pack ages of saws through th- window and the bars Of the sells occupied by all the men believed to be implicated in the af- fair were found to be awkardly mutil- ated. The saws were .;eiT-g 50 unskill- fully handled that the prisoners could never have cut their Way out even il they had net been disturbed. Sloan al so told of converse tion he had hearl between Cline and DalE d day Cr tWt later. That was before the discovery of the saws and after Cline had mad. an arrangement to get out Of jail in regular way by giving bail. Daly liat told Cline that he had fifty horses oi the range. He was to give him a bil of safe fer one of them described as t; blue horse. In consideration Cline Wa: iH the extent of the prisoners being un able tC saw out. to attempt their res cue in some way while they were O, , their way to Yuma. There was som- thing said about slipping guns to then and something about holding up tn train.
 The saws or some of them were foun' and the rest were said to have beel thrown into the water closet. Cline arrest followed and q his preliminar. examination Sloan told the same stor. he had told the sheriff's officers am Daly who had weakened corroborate, Sloan.
 These two were the principal witrts ses for the territory yesterday Hack rey and Welsh testified for Cline O rather to an absence to any knowledg of any conspiracy Hackney was asl1e if he had not told deputy sheriff tha the order given Heron was to D