The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-22
EXPECTED SENSATIONAL TEsT'-
MoNY is NOT GIVEN.
ONLY WHAT PERRoLAS SAID
Witness Against Jail Breaker Does
Not Impjlicate Others Than
Defendant.
From Fridays Daily.

d" y WA6
some sensational developments in con- p
nection with the wholesale jail break =
ing of last September would be Z
brought out at the trial OF Louis Per- I
rolaz. one of the men who made their =
escape at that time and who was SUBJ !
se~uuently recaptured. This, however,
did not occur, much to the d%isappolnt-
ment of those who had been led to
believe that testimony would be given
which would implicate not only those
who actually broke Jail, but some on
the outside who assisted them. In
stead. the supposed star witness
merely related a conversation alleged
to have been had with the defendant.
Proves a Disappointment.
After a jury had been secured the
county attorney introduced as VIII
nesses James Mcbride, who was act
ing taller at the time the escape was
made, Sheriff Hubbard and a fewothers.
Their testimony merely related to the
manner in which the prisoners got
out. After they had been heard Mr..
Harris asked for a recess Of 10 min
utes and then left the court room.
The word was passed around that
he had gone downstairs into the sher-
ifs office to have a talk with Frank
La Pont, held ON the charge OF burg
larv. with an additional Information
pending against him in which he is
charged with having injured a pubic
iail, as he was one OF the crowd tnat
got away during the memorable night
when a dozen or more OF the hardest
criminals ever confined in the jail
made a break for freedom. When
the county attorney reappeared ne
was ACCOMPANIED by La Pont and an
officer, who had the prisoner IN
charge.
Mr.. Harris filed the necessary ain
dayit and then asked cay OF the
court to endorse the name OF La ron
on the information against 'Perrolaz
as a witness for the state. w. M
Johnston, Perrolaz's attorney, Object
ed. The objection was o%verruled an
La Pont was sworn. but not before tn
county attorney had moved the couf
to dismiss the information agains
him in which he is charged with nav
ing been an accomplice of the other
in breaking out of Jail. This wa
done and the examination OF the Wi
ness began.
Merely duplicate Perro'az.
In reply to the questions OF tn
states attorney La Pont said that b
was a prisoner in the county jail an
4 that during the month OF Septempt
he had been confined in the northea'
corridor of the north half OF the mr.
floor of the Jail, while Parrolaz WI
in the south half. La Pont admltte
that he left the Jail when the othe
did and was subsequently %recaItur'
and brought back.
Somewhere about the hrst OF u
nresent month, he said, he had a ia
with Perrolaz concerning the wlnoe
bar that was sawed off in making t.
hole through which the prisoners
the north side of the Jail crawled all
they had released themselves from 7
cell room. Perrolaz had told a
something about saws and had st
that Mosier sawed the bar and Wh
thus engaged had broken the saw
was using. Seeing this he decla1
Perrolaz had said to him that he t.
Mosier he could saw the bar witht
breaking a saw and then had proce
ed to do so.
ssPerrolaz told me, continued
Point. "that after he had sawed
bar partially in two he made a rope
a blanket and then took a broomst
and twisted the rope about the
and broke it"
Did Not See 1t.
On cross-examination La Pont
he did not see it done, as he was {
fined in the other side OF the jail.
hole through which they rawle
made by bending back by hand a
hat had been sawed in two. He
MED that the county attorney
promised him any reward for tes'
ing against Perrolaz, neither had
nromised to dismiss the informa
against him. He said that only
morning he had made up his min
become a witness.
Admission was made by La
that he had.a talk with the count
torney yesterday and that after'
he had told Perrolaz and Grimm