Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-05-26
THREE MORE MEN
GET OUT Of JAIL
MAKE KEY FROM PEWTER
SPOON AND GAIN LIBERTY.
Late DISCOVERY made
Ellis, Starr and Coalson Found Gone
When Ro | Is Called Yesterday
Near Escape by Others.

With the aid Of a crude key made
from a pewter spoon, the cell door
OF one Of the cages at the county jail
was unlocked about s o'clock We'd
nesday night the T5nderous doors
swung open, and three OF the most
dangerous prisoners with whom the
local authorities had to deal made
their escape 10y climbing over the
rear door tIhnsom.
When th3 commotion attracted the
attention Of the new night jailer, c.
A. Corbett he hurried to the back
end OF the room and found three ad-
ditional prisoners, who were confined
IN the same cage, preparing to make
a dash for liberty. With a drawn re-
voler Corbe!t subdued the three men
and marched them back into the cell
and secured the door.
Nothing was learned OF the third
Jail delivery IN the past month, nor
was 1t known TO the jailer himself
that three a. the prisoners had made
]
the county jail yesterday morning, II
was then learned that three OF the
shrewdest men in custody had made
their escape. Ten prisoners were con-
fined in the cell from which the de-
livery was made. and had not the Jail
or heard the noise all would have es-
capped.
II. A. Eis, Andrew Starr and AL
va Coalson were the three men that
failed to answer to roll call at the
Jail yesterday morning They are still
at large. and every effort of the Off
GERS TO get a clue as to their where
abouts has proved futile. Deputy
Sheriff John Durell, since the resig-
nation of John Severns, the former
jailer, has been putting in extra time
at the jail, and was present when the
men were paiaded back 10 their cells
Being unable to make a count of them
owing TO tho congestion OF the cels,
he was ignorant as to how many men
escaped.
A genera overhaullng of the jail
was made yesterday by the sheriffs
force, and to the surprise of the men,
drawings Of crude keys, were found in
the cells fr rpm which the men escaped.
The theory is advanced that Andrew
Starr, who, II is supposed has follow
ed criminal career for years, man
ufactured the keys. A small saw
made from The spring taken from the
instle of q shoe was also found in
the cell With this device, one of
the prisoners informed the
deputies, spoon was flattened and
sawed by direction of the drawings
made from the observation Of the
key that the jailer selected from his
ling when opening the door
r. A. E'lis, one Of the three men
charged with the burglary of the
Boswell iewelry store and among
those who escaped, is also thought to
have helped In the manufacture Of the
key. He was arrsted with deorge
DAILY alias George Lovelace, and
James Woods. The former is said to
have made a key at the city Jail from
| n broom handle, that worked TO per
/ fection on The doors. He was, how
ever, discovered by Jailer Dixon
working on the wood and the instru-
ment was taken from his hands be-
! fore he could put 1t to use.
Andrew Starr was held to answer
in the district court to a charge Of
passing a draft taken with other arti-
cles in burglary of the McCandless
millinery store on East Third last Oc-
tober. He Cpshed the draft for $175
at the Beane-Vandever department
store, after purchasing an order Of
goods amounting to about SO for n
small girl wlo accompanied him. He
attracted little suspicion at the time
as the littl' miss was thought to be
his daughter, but afterward found to
be the daughter Of a woman roomlng
on East First. Starr was arrested
after an exciting chase through the
Alcorn hotel by officer Pikington and
| w. c. Wa"e, proprietor Of the Fris-
co rooms, corner of First and Boston.
was arrested as an accomplice.
Harry Ward, a partner Of A. l..
! Walker, VINO last Tuesday made his
escape from Jailer Severns by taking
a Marathon sprint ont the front door
droesed only In scanty night attire,
was one of the men preparing to
climb through the transom when the
jailer made his appearance. Ward is
an alleged accomplica to the robbery
Of the Grand Theater box office when
sS25 was taken from the theater.
Eddie Buckles, member of the
local colony Of puglllsts and charged
with the robbery of the Wright
Clothing store, was another Of the
men, while Jack Wright, alleged i'm
plicated in the robbery Of the Bos-
well jewelry store, was the third.
Sheriff Mccullough had Just left
the Jail for supper when the two men
on guard made the discovery Of the
door being open The sheriff has
done every hing in his power to pre-
vent rep stition Of the two first
breaks for liberty, and had employed
force Of men now at work barring
the back windows. The work was al
most completed with the exception Of
a hole just large enough to admit
the passage e a mans body over the