Arizona republican., 1907-05-29
IA BREAKER
 OF PRISONS Louis V. fytinge Speaks of
 Deliveries He Admits That Excitement Though Pleasant is Not Necessarily Happiness.

The career or Louis V. Eytinge, as a forger is we'll known and the facts authenticated. but his history as a jaiI
 breaker remains to be given in detail
 to 'the world. There are more things in heaven and in earth .han are dreamed of in the ordinary mans phil osophy, likewise are there more re- markable and interesting events in Eytinge's career than usually be- comes part of the history of the or dinary inhabitant of the underworld,
 the submerged tenth. the knee-deep two-thirds, or the rest of the great unwashed. This history would not be so interesting and of such moment were it not for the fact that others than Eytinge and his pals. former of ficials prominent back in Columbus. Ohio. were involved in one jail break which at the time stirred that state from lake 10 river.
 It was always supposed that Eytinge
 could reveal much if he could be in duced to talk. But he never gave the facts of his career as jail breaker and particularly the story of the Colum-
 bus scandal for publication until the present time. Eytinge's tale reads like book. such as Stringer's Phantom
 Wires" or "A Study in Scarlet" so in tricately interwOven is it with deep plots and dark and ingenious schemes.
 Eytinge first broke jail at Altoona, Penn. whence he took twenty-four men with him. The jail there was an old stone building. and a gasoline torch procured by underground methods was used to heat the stone. When the stone was properly heated water was thrown on it and this caused the stone to crumble and made it easy to pick out with small tools. The mor- tar was kept each day as the work went on and paper placed over the hole and whitewashed so as to pre- vent detection. At Lima, ohio. the task was not so easy as the jail had a double screen and heavy bars at the windows and steel doors. Eytinge was not in the jail at the time nor was he trying to break into jail just for the fun of it. but he had a friend whom he wished to assist in escaping. So
 he decided as he could not aid from the outside he might find it easier to walk in and then walk right out again. He pretented to be suffering from asphasia and was locked up as an insane per son. The sheriffs domestic. Laura Mort. was in love with one of the in mates, Frank Pace, and she agreed to assist in the escape. She procured saws but they were not good stuff and could not be used for the work of cut ting steel bars. Eytinge recovered from his insan' 'ty attack and was dis pharUa6 p Ia al cad tools and the girl passed them through the "hole'-that is the place where the food was passed through to the pri- soners. The boys inside went to work on the ventilator instead of the us- ual method of escape. and this move caused the attempt to be a failure, though it reflects no credit on Ey- tinge's reputation as a successful jail breaker. The ventilator acted as megaphOne and carried the sound so that a reporter passing heard the noise and made a deduction as to what was going on inside and informed the officials.
 Eytinge was captured and brought back and plead guilty to save the girl. He was sent to the penitentiary for two years.
 When he was let out of prison he went into the game again and was arr rested for about twenty forgeries. Of these twenty he could only be sent up for one as he had in the rest made some technical error. purposely; for instance in writing the name of the Co., lumbus Heating and Steam Boiler and Heating Co.,, he signed it the Colu- bus Heating and Steam Boiler CO. which did not exist. The error was not discovered until he had secured his money. The one that caused him to "fall' was a personal check in which he forgot to make any technical error. He was betrayed in Cleveland by a woman. of course, and brought back to Columbus. He was not among strangers here as he met two whom he had known while in prison. With them he discussed breaking jail.
 Herein lies a tale that involves oth- CTS than himself and his pals of the and the story of the facts as given by Eytinge for the first time will cause a sensation back in Ohio where the truth is only half suspect ed. The other half has never yet been told.
 We discussed breaking jail,' says Eytinge. "and finally were enabled to get some saws. which were brought in by two women in the backs of hair brushes which were hollowed out for that purpose. By this method We se- cured two and a half dozen saws. The ailer was Reedy Mcdonald and the sheriff. Charles Pearce, and chief de- | putty, James w. Alden.
 Mcdonald wanted the nomination for | 'heriff but Pearce acting as a poli- | ical dictator gave the nomination to | Alder. Mcdonald was hot over it and l anne out as an independent candidate. ! Reedy one day overheard me in a I quarrel with Pearce about Alder and | asked me to help him. Red Iy. as an independent candidate by I Iiding in an escape of prisoners. which would cast as a reflection on he officials. The food at the jail was bad at the time and We nduced the prisoners to sign a paper on Alder and Pearce and ,raising Reedy McDonald. For this l eceived ten dollars" says Eytinge.
 'In about a week again I got into
 quarrel with the sheriff and was )cked up continually. Mcdonald fas by pressure forced to resign and ne night about a week previous to is departure from the duties of jail- r, Mcdonald approached me about laking a getaway. His suggestion -as to nse an elevator shoot and Of- !