The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-03-05
PRISONERS BREAK JAIL
Luther Anderson and Frank Lewis
Escape From County Jail Last
Sunday Night.
Sheriff Earnest Making. Every Effor'
to Re-Cspture the Ranaways.
$500. Reward Offered.

Va iose ouhuoy hiSh' bu"'Ci
Anderson and Frank Lewis, two
men confined in the Montgomery
Jail to await trial, broke Jail and
made their escape.
All doors had been securely
locked before Sheriff Earnest re-
tired, and each man was in his
cell, but in some way, during the
nj ght, two screws or bolts were re-
IN owed from the bar which holds
the cage closed. These bolts or
q crews have completely disappear
ed. They then, with some false
key or instrument, unlocked the
bi g steel door leading to the base
m ent. Being in the basement
they dug through the brick wall of
the Jail building with pokers and
bars taken from the furnace.
There we're six other prisoners
in their cells who might have es-
capped had they known of what
was going on but all profess to
have known nothing of what was
being done. About Z o'clock Mon
day morning when these prisoners
awoke they discovered that the
door was open, and informed Sher-
if Earnest of what had happened.
On examining the cell of Anderson
a piece of a chair leg was found
which had been whitfield on show
ing that evidently he was endeav-
orine to make a key for this large
iron door, but finding the wood
too hard he must have laid it
aside and used something else,
which proves that they have
studied their delivery for some
time, and planned it, not allowing
these other prisoners in on their
schemes.
Sheriff Earnest and his deputies
are working hard and faithfully to
re-capture these two men. While
the sheriff deplores the fact that
they have escaped, though not
through any negligence or his
part, he is sparing nc pains to find
them and they will undoubtedly
be found in a short time.
, Audrain County and Governor
: will offer a reward of $500. for the
arrest of Anderson and Montgom-
cry county and the Governor will
4 offer $780, 90 for the arrest of Lewil
Anderson ia the man who IL
: charged with the murder of younl
Wagner, near Vandalia, Audrail
o county and who tried to escape
9 from the Audrain county Jail ant
Z was brought here to be held unit
the day of his trial. Before h
was brought here, while beinl
l. confined in the Mexico Jail, it i
d said he had arranged a plot to xii
the Sheriff OF Audrain county an
y escape from that Jail. He ha
served in the U. S. navy and it i
d said he il a deserter. He has o.
,r ten spoken, while in the jail her
y of his desire to re-enlist in tn
he navy, saying that he thought
Is the only life to live, and it is no.
thought that if he can reach a n
o, cruiting station he will re-enlis
p probably under an assumed name
In Frank Lewis is the man VIII
IN is charged with burglarizing tn
a. store of the Griggs-P Perkins Co., I
r. Bellflower, on the night of JanuaI
9th and who was captured theI
BE the following day while comm
Id through on a freight train. II
Nv had walked to Hawk Point ar
to there caught the train, thinkin
8. that he could pass through Bel
i'd flower without being identified
v. Lewis has q prison record. T
served one term in the Nilsson
or state penitentiary under the nan
v. of Lee Lusby and one term und
sr- the name OF Theodore Lusby. Z
was sent to the penitentiary, tn
,oi last term, from Pike County, {
tic March Al, 1905, for burglary ar
he larceny and released on the 10
Iss day Of December 1908.
,ol Lewis' mother lives one mile SOU
sst OF Louisiana, Mo. and his hal
Ter brothcr rims a bus line at Loui,
ana.