Bisbee daily review., 1903-12-16
County Jail Nearly
 Emptied.
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these bars sawed in two, and by twisl-
 ing the same sufficiently for the boay of a man could squeeze through This | done. Johnny James, Sailor Brown, Tom De Priest, Ben Davis and Ton Grady, who were confined in the east
 wing. passed through this opening.
 and this brought them alongsid ,ne:r west side friends, and immediately
 thereafter they pushed out the last
 layer of bricks in the outer wall and
 into the old jail yard. Sailor Browa
 had not been idle. for it was he that
 maaufactured the rope whicn vas fastened around one of tEe two-b"-
 fours as an anchor, and the end ex- 1 tended into the yard. Down his
 rope each of the men swung in pa- tient and quiet order, and aftcf that
 no person can give an explanation. CI where they have gone.
 In all this busy action Virgin was | a looker-on. AS soon as the party Of
 prisoners had disappeared ill the op-
 ening, Virgin made his wa through | the steel bars also, and thence down
 this same rope of Sailor Brown s. ana as stated made his way to the sket.
 ifs office and informed McD0rali of
 what had occurred.
 1 Following is the list of prisoners nvin x--.th !, | they were charged: Bert Alvord. ! plead guilty to robbing the r:.ails, ant sentenced to Yuma for two years:
 Billy Stiles, train robbery, mai rob- bery and attempt to commit murder; l Sailor Brown. assault and threaten l ing to kill; Tom De Priest and B.
 Davis, highway robbery, for nol ;ins | up a man in Brewery Gulch; James Bennett, smuggling Chinese, released
 on S1,000 bends, and subsequently ar | rested at the jail door for attempting to smuggle in tools to the jail to ef- l feet escape; David O'Brien, sodomy; Johnny James, murder; Ricardo San doval. smuggling silks. etc. Mareno Gonzales, assault with attempt to kill
 at Fairbanks; Francisco Robles, for
 gerry in raising order on the Copper Queen store at Douglas; an unknown
 Mexican, and Tom Grady, the hold-up
 man, caught recently in Bisbee for l holding up about a dozen men near
 the. slag dump.
 Some of the party were seen to be
 running down Toughnut street, while
 others took to the railroad. It is generally conceded that Alvord and
 Stiles are paired of in the escape.
 A horse belonging to Bob Winders IS
 missing, and it is believed here that Stiles and Alyord have the horse, and
 that on getting out they would dis miss the companionship of their fel- low prisoners and make their way
 or their own hook.
 Three rangers from Douglas started at once from that point. Deputy Sher- if Wilson with a ranger from that l town, and Deputy Sheriffs Printy and Johnson from Bisbee, were ordered to close in on the area supposed to sur.
 round the country in which the pris- oners might be concealed.
 When the word of the escape reacn' ed Benson, Colonel w. c. Greene was
 in that town with his private car. ana
 immediately wired to Cananea in
 structions to furnish a special train to bring the Ko5terlitzky command of Hurdles to the line and watch the bor. der for any of the party that might show up in their endeavcr to reach the Mexican side of the line.
 It will not be a very healthy find for any of them should they fall into the hands of Kosterlitzky's men.
 It is believed that the escape was thoroughly conceived and assistance furnished from the outside. It is also reported that the wife of Billy Stiles purchased some ammunition in Naco yesterday. No doubt but from the desperate character of both Al word and Stiles they are by this time well away, and thoroughly equipped with guns and ammunition for serv- ice in case they should require to use them.
 Sheriff Lewis is at present absent i from the city, but has been advised of the escape, and will return post haste to join in the chase. The ev- ening was an ideal one for the wori- done, it being very dark. Stiles and Alvord know every trail in the coun- ty. and there is little doubt but what they will have made good their es- cape It is hoped, however, that be- fore morning some of the party may be captured, which may give some cfew as to the whereabouts of the others The party suspected of com plicity in the escape has not been