Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-22
SHERIFF BOYD
GRABS CONVICT
ESCAPES FROM BOISE IN AN
AUTOMOBILE AND Is TAX
EN- HERE
Thrilling Escape of a Man On Charge
of Horse Stealing.-Locks the
JaiIor in a Cell and Escapes TO
This City.

Harrison Huges, who broke Jail at
Boise about 1880 o'clock last Sun
day evening by locking up Night
watchman Robertson, was arrested
in Mountain Home Monday and TAX
en- back to Boise in the evening
Hughes was awaiting trial in Boise
on a charge of stealing horses from
Joseph Perrault in the valley and
others from the county poor farm. Az
ter it was found that he had dis
appeared the officers at once were
hot on his trail although nothing def
mite as to his whereabouts was
known until o'clock on Monday
morning.
A few moments after he was on his
way toward Mountain Home in an
automobile which he had ordered by
telephone from the 1nter-M fountain
auto company. The driver of the
car, Frank Hinkey. was compelled to
go at top speed as Hughes had flash
ed on him a piece of glistening met
al which Hinkey believed to be a re-
volver, but later it became known
that it was the key to the cell from
which the fugitive had escaped.
After they had travelled only ID
miles and were in the vicinity OF
Black creek the automobile stopped
and the driver was compelled by
Hughes to work at a thousand parts
of the machine which Hughes believ
: ed might have got out of order.
The real cause, however, wa,
that Hinkey had. as his companion
head was turned, disconnected tn,
batteries. He made Hughes believ,
that the machine was out of gas an,
sent him on to a camp about "a hal
mile ahead and when Hughes was on
of sight he jumped into the seat ant
quickly turning the machine aroun'
p madet he trip to Boise in 45 minutes
He at once notified the officers wher
he had left his unwelcome guest.
Deputy Sheriff O'Connor went &
Owyhee station. arriving there abou
6 a. m. and found that a man ans
wering to the description of Hughe
had boarded freight train a FEY
minutes before He at once set on
in his automobile in an attempt /
overtake the train before it reache
Orchard and woul have done so bu
one of the tires blew out and the o,
cupants were compelled to walk aboa
five miles as soon as they reached o.
chard they at once wired to the o
ficers here and notified them to L
!, on the lookout
Several pictures of Hughes ha
A. been prepared in the night by She
- in Bennett and were sent here q
n the early morning train. sheri
j. Boyd ana Arthur Stevens searche
"a the freight as it arrived in Mountai
II Home but the desired man could n,
70 be located. In the meantime Hugh'
D. had jumped from the freight an
~ made his way around town. He n
4 knowingly passed by the residen'
"a of Mrs. Boyd and she immediate
recognized him as the man who he
a. escaped jail at Boise and whose pi
- ture had just been received. De
,r uty Sheriff Howeth was at once Al
I, titled and he in turn informed Sheri
y Boyd They made a quick search
sc the business places in the city an
discovered Hughes just as he ente
A. ed the garage where he was eviden
m ly expecting to start on another a
If tomobile ride He was placed und
= arrest and taken to Boise Monday a
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