East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-28

In a sensational jailbr-ak which
occurred at the county Jail between 2
prizoners, Robert Waddle, Guy Young
and James Kennedy made their escape
and up to this time they have not been
recaptured.
The circumstances surrounding the
break show that It was a carefully laid
plot and also that the prezent county
Jail is not sufficient to hold prizoners
when they are provided with a saw
such as they uzed last night.
Sawed Iron Like Wood.
All three of the men who escaped,
and two others, Ingersoll, who is in
sane, and Bill Blevins, charged with
horse stealing, We're confined in the
upper cells within the Jail. In front
of the cells is a corridor with a door
at the north end. The prizoners were
merely lockt within this corridor and
not in their individual cells during
the night. At the south end of the
corridor is a place where the cell had
been sawn once before, and had since
been repaired by patching. 1t was
there that a hole about a foot square
was sawed in the cell. In order to
make the opening 1t was necessary to
saw through eight of the flat iron
bars of which the Jail is composed.
These bars are about three-eighths of
an inch by two inches, but with the
steel saw uzed the men evidently cut
through as if they had been wood.
Circuitous Route Taken.
After getting thru the upper corri-
dor the men dropt to the floor below,
From there they entered the bath
room. and went up the stairs leading
to the women's cells above which
rear of one of these cells is a door
were unoccupied and unlockt. At the
which was lockt with a big paddock.
This was sawn through by the Jail
breakers and they then descended to
the floor beneath. This led them to
an outer grated window, and one of
the iron bars of the same was sawn
thru at the top. The bar was then
bent to one side, and through the
opening all three men climbed to
freedom. The opening made was
small one, but all three of the priz-
oners being small men, it proved suf-
ficient for them.
Five Hours Start.
That Jail break had occurred was
not discovered until O'Clock this
morning when the big cells were un.
locked to allow the inmates of the Jail
to uze the main corridor. II was then
found that three of the tenants had
flown and the hole in the cell and the
broken CRATE showed plainly the man.
ner of exit. According to the other
prizoners the escape was made be-
tween . and 8 o'clock, and all of the
saving was done between dark last
evening and that hour.
Evidently Blevins and Ingersoll had
no desire for freedom as they did not
follow their companions. No alarm
was given, however, by the prizoners
who remained behind.
Saw Left in Woodshed.
The saw and several small files
uzed by the Jail breakers were found
this morning in the woodshed which
is just beyond the grated window thru
which the prizoners leapt. The saw is
small one of the kind uzed for saw
ing steel or iron, and 1t IS about n
foot long. 1t was still sharp in spite
Of the hard usage to which 1t was sub
jeCted.
How the saw was smuggled into the
Jail is a mystery, but from the nature
of the Jail it could eazily have been
accomplished. Friends of the prizon-
ers, more frequently Indians, are al
lowed to talk to inmates of the Jail
thru the barred door leading into the
same from the sheriff's office. A
small object such as a saw. could
easily be past thru, or II could be
thrown thru one of the windows in
another portion of the Jail. Frequent
ly the windows of the big corridor
are left open for ventilation, leaving
only the iron bars for protection. 1t
has been urged that a heavy wire
screen be placed over the windows so
as to prevent anything being past
through.
Search IL On.
As soon as the break was discov-
cred this morning Sheriff Taylor and
all his deputies at once took up the
chase and every effort has been made
to find the missing men. Phone mes