The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-21
COUNTY JAIL is
ATTACKED BY SULLIVAN
Continued from Page I.

joining cell upon the llISl SfSildl VI
danger. He then gave the saws to
guards would be content to search him.
lie was so near success that Sheriff
Every at once decided to remove the
man to the state penitentiary. Sulli-
van was accompanied to the peniten-
tiary by Deputy Sheriffs Sharp and
Emery.
Possible to Escape.
That it is possible for desperate
man to escape from the county Jail was
shown last spring when Charles .Riis,
burglar who had been sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary, sawed
through the bars in the manner at
tempted by Sullivan, and got away.
Riis has not been captured. Sullivan.
when discovered, was trying TO initiate
Riis' exploit.
An amusing feature of the attempt
to break Jail was its effect upon Sheriff
Emery A half hour before the alarm
was raised, Sheriff Emery sat in his
Office and said:
I'VE have fifteen men here as dam
gerous as Sullivan. We are able to
take care OF them"
Only a little later, the sheriff, white
as a sheet was issuing orders for the
removal of Sullivan to the state peni-
Help From Outside.
In the face of the extreme watchful-
ness maintained at the county Jail to
prevent the escape of Sullivan, the
manner in which he obtained help from
the outside is a puzzling problem. Sui
livan's movements while in Jail were
almost constantly under the scrutiny
of a guard, and his cell was searched
at intervals.
The rotary cells used in the jail made
the picking of locks an impossibility.
as when the prisoners are locked IN
their cells there are ne locks for them
to pick. This did away with the dan
ger of a repetition of Sullivan's
achievement in unlocking the door of
his cell in the Ogden Jail. BIZ. it left
the serious danger of saws falling into
the hands of the desperate.
The fear that he would. through the
assistance of other prisoners, secure
tools, kept the Jail guards constantly
alert.
Long Way to Freedom.
To accomplish his purpose of forcing
his way to freedom, Sullivan would
have been compelled TO saw through
two steel bars in front of his cell TO
make. an opening large enough for his
body to pass through. Then, on crawl
ing from his cell, he would have had
two more bars to saw through at one
of the windows.
Sullivan's appearance at the county
Jail was the signal for a shifting of
prisoners from cell TO cell. One reason
for this was to prevent the desperate
from getting into communication with
dangerous prisoners. Another reason
was to prevent his wreaking vengeance
upon men who had betrayed him.
"stooI Pigeon" Protected.
To avoid any possibility of an at
tempt at violence upon Doc" Gibson,
the stool pigeon by Sullivan, Gibson
was removed from his old cell to new
quarters in the woman's ward. When
Sullivan was taken TO the county jail,
il was predicted that there would be
trouble when he met Gibson. In the
light of Sullivan's record while in the
state penitentiary, there were grounds
for this fear. Gibson is the man who
talked to Sullivan and Owen few
hours before the Albany saloon hold-up
and the subsequent shooting of Police
man Ford. 1t is said that he also
claims to have talked to Garcia, the
porch climber. that night. Gibson in
formed the authorities that mischief
l.
owen were followed. After having
made himself useful to the authorities
i'm tracking criminals, Gibson is al
legged to have attempted robbery at
the Darlington roOming house in Sec
ond South street and claimed when he
was captured that he was a deputy
sheriff, working under orders from
Sheriff Emery. Gibson was serving a
term in the penitentiary for forgery
when Sullivan was there. and when the
two met after Sullivan's release, the
highwayman talked freely of his plans
with his former prison mate.
Had Sullivan been allowed to meet
Gibson, it is believed that his fury,
upon beholding the man who had laid
trap for him, would have broken
down his caution and that he would
have recklessly attempted to Kill the
informer.
Demng is Guarded.
Richard Deming and several other
prisoners whose sympathies for Sulli-
van might have caused them to assist
the desperate to escape, were also
placed in cells which cut them off from
communication with Sullivan. Demins
is accused of highway robbery. Among
criminals he is admired for his will
ingness to take upon his shoulders the
blame for crimes OF which 0tner men
are accused. When Eddie Olson was
on trial, charged with the robbery of
the Angelus rooming house, Deming
went on the stand and stated that he
had given Olson the stolen articles
found in his possession Soon after
ward, Deming escaped from the county
Jail. After his capture in Oregon, he
claimed that ne had Travelled north
with Sullivan and that during the long
trip, while the two men were constant
~ together. Sullivan had said nothing
about the Albany saloon holdup or the
murder of Policeman Ford. 1t is be-
lieved that he told the story in the
hope of creating the belief that when
Sullivan left Salt Lake he knew nothing
OF the crime OF which he is now
charged, Sullivan denies that he was
with Deming, but if he knew that
Demings story would be favorable to
the defense, it is believed that he