Arizona republican., 1907-05-29

flashed on him the saws that the wo- men had brought in. With these we had been working about five minutes each day at locking up time.
 Mcdonald was pleased 10 know we had the saws and asked how many were in on the deal and I told them there were two. Bob Shifflett and otto Keller. both in for horse stealing. not stealing ordinary skates. they wouldn't stoop to that, but for confiscatihg rsal thoroughbred race animals.
 At that time." says Eytinge. "thss. was in jail under sentence of d-ssA one Lewis Harmon; thls man p.s 1 stupid morphine fiend and easily cen. trolled by me as he had a weaker Nsti Reedy suggested that Harmon be iA- cluded in the escape SD as tO nisas the scandal bigger and create ms7~ sensation by which he would be xErs to get the office.
 Reedy offered two hundred tfOllars to me if We three that had been plan ming. escaped. and four hundred U Harmon was included in the deal. The agreement was made and Reedy ire quently inquired how the work was progressing. and examined every part of it. once he asked me not to be too hasty but to wait till he was away from the jail some time"
 Mcdonald agreed to send the money tC Portsmouth, Ohio. under one of Fly tinge's aliases.
 "The day after he left" says Ey- tinge, i've determined that the work vas progressing too slowly. We per suaded Harmon to break a glass bot He and make cuts over his body and try to act as though he was commit ting suicide. and we of course were the first to discover it and held him cown till the doctors arrived. We were placed as body guards over Harmon and this gave us more time to work. about two hours a day. In order to reach the place of escape it was nee essary to cut through three sets of steel bars. The last set of bars was one and One-fOurth inch chilled steel and then there was a steel netting in serted in an iron frame. After we had sawed one end of the bars We We're Gt loss how to proceed. as We did not want to saw the other end as that might lead 10 detection l knew some thing about physics and leverage and so We got three broom handles and at last with sudden, almost superhuman strength of men who intended not tO fail, bent the bars. So quickly was it done that the paint on the bar was burned by the heat generated by the bending. Three policemen aEterward set on one of these bent bars and could not make it move. When every thing was in order the work Of escape was tha matter of but few minutes. Harmon did not discover the plan of escape until two days before. We be- ing averse to having him in it in the first place. We got out at six ia the morning Men were in the alley and saw US. but did not interfere. We had alr52dy arranged for four pals tO be dressed as We were. and to drive Out of town and by this method. We fool ed the police. I also had a letter sent to girl saying was going to Battle Pnstum people and when we gO' away the girl handed this to the officials. It was. of course. a bluff
 "We all went in different directions and finally met. We tried to get away from Harmon as he was about all in and couldn't keep up with us Fin ally We arrived at a stream near a lit tie town and paused to let Harmon recuI crate and to take a bath. This was {. bad move for two boys saw Hal men partly stripped sld saN- tie bandages on his arms which were mentioned in the circulars sent out The sheriff offered s4OO reward for us dead or alive. The boys reported this discovery and the officers swoOped down on us. Shifflet was captured in St. Louis.
 Mcdonald promised if we got into trouble to help us out. but when we were brought back he did nothing He turned over to the democrats and got a job as jailer under them, they being successful in the election Hon. F. L. Taylor now congressman offered me immunity if I would tell the truth. but l didn't tell it at the time because I thought Mcdonald would keep his word. This is about all the story ex- cept the subsequent discovery that I had been arrested in Cleveland. Ohio. under an alias caused two detectives to rush in on my mother at Dayton. ohio. when she was i!I with heart disease and the shock resulted in her death.~
 Eytinge says his life has not been happy though full of excitement. There is hint of sadness when he speaks of home and of his mothers sudden death But he says that when he went into the game he realized home was beyond him and so he put happiness behind still he has enjoyed his life of excitement for the wanderlust was in his blood.