The Pensacola journal., 1906-08-24
3 Men Due Their Way Through
Eighteen Inch Brick
Wall.
J. p. HOLLISTER, JACK BARRY AND
JOE McGlNNIS, ALL WHITE
PRISONERS, MADE THEIR Es.
cAPiE-BELlEVED THEY HAD AS.
SISTANcE FROM THE OUTSIDE.

A JAIL deHVeCy, IN WHICH Inree
white prisoners made their escape
from the county Jail, occurred some
time during Wednesday night or early
Thursday morning. The men made
their escape by digging hole through
an eighteen-inch brick wall in the rear
portion of the Jail building.
When the work was done or how it
was done is mystery, as is the where
abouts of the escaped prisoners.
Whether there was assistance from the
outside is not known positively, but
it is believed by some that such was
the case. If not then instruments and
tools with which the prisoners could
work were sent them in some manner
by friends, for tackEng an eighteen
inch wall Is no easy proposition, es-
pecially when the work must be done
without noise.
The Escaped Prisoners.
The prisoners who made their
escape are as follows:
] P. Hollister. serving sentence OF
eighteen months for passing worth
less checks.
Jack Barry an exbluejscket, serv-
ing nine months for lewd conduct.
Joe McGinnis charged with petit
larceny, and a United States peonage
case witness
Hollister is the plumber VINO was
captured In New Orleans and brought
here for. trial for passing worthless
checks on several parties. He plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to serve
eighteen months in the state convict
camps, but this sentence was com
muted to Jail sentence, and as ne
was a long-term man he was mace
"bull ring" tender in the county jail,
thus giving him liberty Of the corridor
around the cells.
Barry had served all of his nine
months sentence except twenty-three
DAYS, and he too was not locked In
tie cells at night, but allowed the
liberty of the corridor upon the re-
quest of the county physician.
McGinnis was arrested some weeks
sinoe for stealing $S.75 and had not
vet been tried. He Is one of the wit
nesses in the jackson Lumber Com
NJ nv peouage cases, and would nave
been held in jail by the government
after the county charge had been sat
isf1ed.
Made No Noise.
The three prisoners worked quietly,
If in was they who did the work, and
no noise whatever was heard during
the night. Even the fifty prisoners
locked in cells in the jail, and the half
dozen outside in the corridor claim
that they heard no nose, but 1t is be-
iieved that some of them knew what
was going on. One negro woman,
however. stated that about ] o'clock
Yesterday morning she heard unusual
noises about the jail and that the
dogs in the jail yard barked consid-
erably for about half an hour.
When the prisoners finished their
work and were at liberty outside the
jsfl they calmly stopped and changed
clothing, having brought along the
clothing they had in the jail, and after
this went to the northeast corner OF
the jail wall ard placing ladder
there climbed over and made for
parts unknown. No tools or anything
that. could be used In removing brick
were found inside the jail, but on ths.
outside was an axe and a trowel and
the brick work which had not been
removed also showed bruises, as II
struck by some metal instrument.
Discovered About 5 O'CLOCK.
The escape of the threa prdDoner'