The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24
|. Miller, Prisoner, Found Dead,
Hanging Through Window
Of County JAIL
TWO PRISONERS GONE

lFrom tuesdays Dally.l

which no and follow prisoners had
sawed in two, with one arm and
half his body hanging over the graf
Ing, l.. Miller, a prisoner was found
dead yesterday morning at the
county jail How tho man died,
whether quietly and quickly by some
twingo of his heart, abused and
weakened by habitual dissipation or
whether ne slowly strangled to
death as he struggled in his half
crazy delerium to free himself from
the iron bars that held him, no one,
unless 1t be the prisoners who pre-
ceodod him through the aperture,
can tell, When one of the prison
ers in the adjoining room of the
jail made tho CHASTITY discovery
yesterday morning, the body was
cold and stiff and the mans head
hanging down over the ledge was
black with the blood that had
drained from the rest of the body
Were Short Term Prisoners.
The singular feature Of the Jail
delivery is the fact that all the
prisoners were serving sentences for
trifling offenses and none of them
had as much as thirty days yet to
| serve. There were six of these men
in for uifling offenses and Con-
stable Keeton left them in the west
rooms of the jail which is not pro-
vided with cells but is amply secure
for ordinary purposes with the inch
iron bars set in solid masonry which
guard all the windows. Another
singular thing is that the other three
men knew nothing Of the plans and
did not find the dead man in the
window till the morning.
Il noticed them three fellows
talkin' together" said one of hte
other prisoners yesterday morning,
"and seen 'em go into that other
room several times but l just
thought someone had slipped 'em a
bottle o. whiskey and 1t wasn't my
place to butt in. That Teller that's
dead was crazy like yesterday as If
he was drunk and had some dope
in i'm. | think Slim had some dope
and both Of them had been taking
IT,"
Jones and Thompson Escaped.
Slim" to whom the prisoner re-
ferred, was E. Jones, one of the
men who escaped. He was serving
a short sentence for gun play and
had five more days. The other of
the three conspirators were Roy
Thompson, the young man who gave
his home as in Buffalo, N. Y, last
week when he was arrested for
stealing from the Roach wholesale
drug store where he had been en-
ployed few days. Thompson plead
guilty and was given a short
sentence, He was apparently of a
higher order Of cunning than the
other two and it may be that he
inspired the attempt,
What the instrument with which
tho bar was sawed in two with is
a matter for conjecture. Jones. has
been employed by Constable Keeton
about the court yard in cleaning up
the premises, aud 1t may be that he
found some piece of steel out of
which he fashioned hack saw. The
bar was sawed half through on one
side and then half through on the
other The cuttings did not meet
and it must have taken violent
wrench to pull the bar aside. 1t
was bent in and upward leaving a
space about eight or nine inches
wide. This was the northwest
window on the west side and thel
men after crawling through stepped
from the ledge onto the porch and
easily to the ground.
Constable Keeton thinks that the
attempt was made shortly after 8
o'clock as he was up at that time
and there was apparently nothing
wrong. 1t seems odd that the two
men who went down first did not
wait to see whether their companion
came but if they were cocaine crazy,
as the circumstances seem to indi
cate, they probably made away as
soon as they reached ground. The
'prisoners are often noisy and it is
barely possible that the man made
outcrles that were not heard. There