The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-06-01
And Woman with Little
Babies is Jailed as An
Accomplish.
ONE MAN RETURNS
Blood Hounds and Posses
Scour County for the
Fleeing Men.

coHttalbles and special officers who
can be engaged by sheriff Michael i
Francis are occurring Harrison and
adjoining counties in search Of sever
prisoners who escaped from the Har.
rison county sail early Monday morn.
ins by saving bars OF corridor wal
and a window. Eight prisoners lefI
the Jail but one of them. a foreigner
returned about two hours later and
told the jaiIer OF the escape. Mrs
4 B. Price, wife OF one CT the prIs.
oners. has been arrested and Jailed
MS an accomplish. II is believed she
carried saws in her stockings to the
prisoners.
The Escaped Men.
The prisoners who escaped are az
foilows:
L. p. PRIqE. a Weston young man
\ who was awaiting trial on charges OF
forging checks on local merchants and
who is believed to be the instigator OF
the delivery. He had recently been
committed to the insane asylum at
Weston but vas later released as not
insane. He Is a very thin, emacated
fellow with long, dark hair. has a stlff
knee and walks with a limp.
Mpap AHHIIuBR. slav of Enter
prise, who was serving n term OF six
months for carrying revolver. He
is about 80 years old. weighs about
1@O pounds and has long, dark hair
that comes well down over his fore
head. He wore dark suit OF clothes
when he left the Jail.
JE1:lsiE TAYLOR, n Marion county
prisoner who had been committed to
the Jail to await trial at Fairmont on
charge of stealing SIS from man
at Warrington. He is about % yeurs
old, I'VE feet ten inches in height, is
slim in stature, and has light COM
plexion and sandy hair. He wore
light gray slut and n cap when he
made his escape.
EARL GtFuEAsSHR, an alleged horse
thief of Marion county. who was also
awaiting trial at Fairmont. He Is ~
years old and about five feet six
inches in height. has light, curly hair
and wore dark clothes when he left
the jail. His left eye is black and
blue, the result OF being kicked in the
face by another prisoner in recent
i.sLt n TIE jail
GLEN MORGAN. aged % years.
son OF /. d. Morgan, prominent oil
producer OF Wetzel county. He was
also Marion county prisoner and
was awaiting trial at Fairmont on a
charge of stealing n suit of clothes at
that place. He Is about five feet sevenI
inches in height. has dark hair andl
wore dark suit OF clothes but no hatI
when he left the Jail. In crawling
through one of the apertures between
the bars he tore his trousers consld-
erably.
JASON HALL, Harrison county
-prlsoner who was awaiting action Of
the grand jury on charge of UNI
lawfully associating with woman.
He is 1--WE feet ten inches high. weighs
about $50 pounds and has light hair.
when he left the Jail he wore dark
suit OF clothes.
CHARLES BANKER, aged % years,
who was serving a sentence of forty
days on charge of defraudlng al
boarding house keeper of board
BIZ. He had served about twenty
days of his sentence. He is a slim,
light Completed fellow about five
feet four inches in height. He also
had on a dark suit of clothes.
FAuNCtE DEHIECArTO, a Marion
county prisoner who had served two
months of a sentence of six months
ftr stealing brass at Fairmont. He is
the fellcm who returned to the jail
and told the jailer of the escape.
Worker Two weeks.
With rare cunning and artfulness,
the prisoners who escaped had been
Fawing the bars in the jail for about
Two weeks. They made a custom Of
turning on two or three water fau-
Gets, which made a noise, so they
said, that would drown out the rack
ct made by other prisoners. The
oaring of the water served to drown
the sound of their saving. This work
was done in the night time and ar
Ter they had sawed away for two or
three hours they would fill up the
cracks made in the bars with soap
and rub dirt upon the surface.
In the first place, the prisoners
would either pick the locks of their
cell doors with u violin string. or. by
giving the knobs a certain quick jerk,
would throw the latch. The cells
from which they escaped are the ten
in a row on the west side of the
ground floor, all of which are locked
with one device at the north end OF
the little corridor outside the cells
Sheriff Francis says this locking de.
vice never did work to>perfection and
that 1t has been possible for the prIs-
oners to work through their Gel
doors into the inside corridor. No!
n great deal OF Importance was at,
tached to this as 1t was believed the
prisoners were secure behind tn.