The Paducah evening sun., 1910-05-09
JAIL DELIVERY FRUSTRATED
JUST IN TIME.
Turnkey Walter Cartee Might Have
Been Killed by the
Jail Birds,
TWO DESPERATE PRISONERS

II deputy county Jalief, early sunday
morning prevented Cicero Anderson,
sentenced to one year in the peni-
tentiary for malicious shooting. and
TROY Dill, a bootlegger. escaping
from the county Jail When detect
ed they had sawed through a heavy
bar and were preparing to make
their escape from the corridor when
N Jailer Henry Houser and Cartee
loverpowered them and took away
two razors, one knife and a steel
hack saw with two other saws.
II 1t was about midnight when Car
tee. who sleeps at the jail. was
awakened by the steady saving, al
though the music from a mandolin
partially drowned out the noise.
Carefully slipping to the door he
ascertained that some white prison
ers were at work on the bars.
Realizing the need of assistance.
Cartee rushed across the street to
the residence of Jailer Houser and
awakened him. When they reached
the Jail again the prisoners were
loose in the corridor and were free
to pick a hole in the wall. which Is
weak. Cartee called Dill TO the
door. and when he responded the
deputy jailer seized two razors in
the prisoners pocket.
With one prisoner dlsarmed the
search began for Anderson. who. il
was discovered, had placed a pile of
clothes in his bed to serve as a
dummy. Jailer Houser entered the
jail. and with pistol in hand made
a thorough search. From the lower
floor Anderson would swing him
self up to the second platform
around the cage and reverse his tao
ties when Jaller' Houser was in the
white prisoners ward. Finally he
was spied and surrendered without
resistance. The saw was discovered
! concealed under his vest. lie was
iarmed with a pocket knife.
4 After being captured both prison
ers were handcuffed together and
! placed in another cell for safekeep-
ling. Both appeared chagrined over
| the frustrated attempt at Jail break
ing. All yesterday the two men were
handcuffed together and will remain
so until Anderson is taken to the
| lpenitentiary.
! The Plot.
/ After both prisoners were behind
the bars safely their neatly arranged
plan of escape was exposed. Ander-
son has been head cellman in the
white department and his cell is
Opposite the main door. II is possi
BILE for the head cellman To walk
out of the cell to the door, but he
does not have egress TO the corridor
because of a door which is locked
by lever from the outside.
Saturday afternoon, when the
prisoners we're locked in the cells
after exercising In the corridor,
Tory Dill hid and failed to go to his
cell. Near midnight the saw was
handed to him, and while Anderson
played on the mandolin he sawed
the lever. With this severed 1t was
possible to release Anderson from
his cell to the corridor.
Fortunately the clever plan was
nlpped in the nick of time. 1t Is
that their ruse was to call
Cartee and while apparently safely
locked in their cells, to get the
deputy jailer to open the main door
for the purpose of seeing a sick
prisoner. With the two razors and
a knife, the two prisoners might
have overpowered Cartee and suc-l
escaped. Should THIS plan
have failed. II would have been an
easy task to dig a hole in the wall
in a short time with the tools they
had.
Anderson is considered a desperate
man, although a mere youth. Hell
has served short term in the peni-
tentiary for murder, but was re-
leased, and in a few days after re-
turning from Eddyyille was arrested
for malicious shooting. Last sum-
mer he escaped from the prison in
a wholesale fail delivery. He was
recaptured and will be taken to the
state penitentiary this week to serve
one year for malicious shooting.
Since his last imprisonment Ander-
son has been a model prisoner and
has been granted privileges. When
covered with the pistols of Jailer
Houser and his son, Lloyd Houser,
and Cartee, he looked up with sur
prise and his only comment was
what do you think we are-out-
laws?" Later he appeared overcome
and with tears in his eyes said he
tried Jail breaking because he was
sentenced to the penitentiary forl
something he did not do.
Dill is serving a sentence of four
months in Jail and a fine of 500,
which was given at the last session
of federal court. He is considered a
desperate man and has been unruly
most of the time in prison. He was
brought from Graves county for
bootlegging.
Had the two prisoners been sue
cessful, none of the other prisoners
could have escaped because they