Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-20
DESPERATE EFFORT MADE AT
SAN BERNARDlN0
FRUSTRATED BY THE GUARDS
EIqht-Yesr-old Boy Dies as Result
Of injuries Sustained In
Falling From Roof
Of House
Special to The Herald.

special to The Herald.
SAN BERNARDINO, Aug 1s.--James
Poole, a negro prisoner in the county
jail, this morning made a desperate at
tempt to break from the stockade sur
rounding the rock breaking yard where
the prisoners are employed during the
day, and had It not been for Thomas
Carter and Jailer Jesse Case there
would without doubt have been gen.
eral break on the part of the eighty
prisoners who had just been marched
out for their days work.
For some days the guards have been
suspicious of Poole and had the lock
on the stockade gate changed yester-
day. This was evidently observed by
Poole. Just after the prisoners had
commenced work Poole grabbed his
sledge and began hammering the lock
to break It,
CONSERVATION reigned among the
prisoners for moment when they were
covered with six-shooters and ordered
to drop their hammers under penalty
of being shot. Every hammer went
down.
Meantime Poole was dealing terrific
blows to the lock, when he was covered
with two pistols in the hands of Guard
John Blackburn. Poole threatened to
brain the guard, while Blackburn gave
the prisoner just one second to drop the
hammer, which he did. Poole was then
placed in dark cell, where he will be
kept two weeks on bread and water.
Poole is under six months sentence
from Needles and has been one of the
most troublesome prisoners ever in the
county Jail.
He will probably be charged with at
tempting to break Jail and given a pen
itentiary sentence.
Had it not been for the quickness and
GOODNESS of the guards in covering the
maddened prisoners it is believed there
would have been a general break for
liberty.
Doyle Will Case Again
A petition has been filed by Attorney
G. N. Damron for one Archie Doyle of
Tennessee, asking that the court set
aside the recent decree appointing
George H. Jones as administrator of
the estate of John N. Doyle and name
the petitioner, who claims to be a
brother. Doyle was shot in his cabin
Gator he
now none of his relatives has been
found except Jones, who claimed to be
a cousin and secured letters of admin
istration on that claim. The petition
estrangement between Doyle and the
remainder of the family in the east is
that he got into a stabbing affray in
Mississippi forty years ago and jumped
of for years. A bitter contest in court
is now expected.
Raymond Hogue, the S-year- son
of ]. B. Hogue. died this morning from
injuries received last night in falling
from the roof of a house while playing
hide and seek with neighbor boys The
boy was sitting beside the chimney
when some bricks fell, frightening him,
causing him to get excited and fall off
the roof to the ground, a distance of
nearly twenty feet. His skull was frac-
tured.
The First National bank of Redlands
has appealed its suit against Mrs. Ger
trude Bowers, which the defendant has
twice won in the superior court here.
The first time the case was appealed to
the supreme court and sent back for a
new trial, the second trial resulting the
same as the first. in a victory for the
defendant. The bank seeks to recover
$4,000 which it alleges it paid out on
orders from the Haight Fruit company,
which Mrs. Bowers had agreed to stand
good for and which 1t never could col
lect. She claims she never agreed to
assume the liability. hence the suit The
case now goes to the court of appeals.
German Seeks His Wife
William Shutter. a German who re-
sides at East Cotton, is looking for his
wife. who left home with considerable
portion of the household goods a few
days ago while he was spending the
day in San Bernardino. Thus far he
has been unable to get any trace of her
further than her note left behind say
ing she had gone to Cotton. But he has
been unable to locate her in Cotton.
An unusual action has been taken in
the case of Paolo Generali, who had
been an inmate at the Patton asylum
the past seven months. Last night he
was taken by an immigration inspector
to New York to be deported to his
native country. Investigation has
shown that he was insane and confined
in an asylum in Italy before coming to
this country two years ago. 1t being a
violation of the immigration laws to