Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-05-03
MADE DARING ATTEMPT
At JAIL DELIVERY
Man Caught in the Act is Now
Also Behind the Bars.
Hazel Green Miner Brought Saws and
Other Accessories to His Pal, Van
arde, at Jail, Last Saturday.

What is believed to have been one
of the most carefully planned Jail
deliveries in the history of Grant was
foiled last Saturday afternoon when
Sheriff W. G. Hymer took possession
of seven steel saws and a bottle of oil
that Adolph Huisman, Hazel Green
miner, had struggled in to Julius
Vanarde who is awaiting trial on the
charge Of assaulting fellow work
man. Had Vanarde found an op-
portunity to use the saws it is be-
lieved that at least four of the six
prisoners would have quickly made
their escape according to agreement.
Sheriff HymeI' s suspicious we're
aroused about ten days ago by the
conversation of the prisoners at a time
they believed no one could overhear
them. This furnished him no know
ledge Of their plans however and he
kept his eyes open for further develop
ments.
A letter from Huisman to Vararde
gave him his next clew. The two
men are natives of Belgium and speak
and write mongrel dialect composed
partly Of German and partly Of French.
The sheriff was able to decip1er
the meaning of several of the phrases
contained in this letter and proved to
his own satisfaction that his suspi-
cions were not unfounded. He with
held the epistle from Vanarde and the
latter shortly manifested an uneasi-
ness regarding the delay of his friend
in corresponding with him. Willing
to give the prisoner enough rope to
hang himself. Mr.. Hymer permitted
him to talk to his FELLOW country
man over the long distance telephone.
The man spoke plainly in his usual
dialect and all arrangements were
made and sufficiently understood by
those in his hearing for Huisman' s
visit to the county Jail.
The Belgian arrived on scheduled
time. The two men were allowed to
go to the women S section of the jail
and talk together as long as they
pleased. Following the completion
of their visit, to their great surprise,
they were obliged to submit to a care
full search of their garments with the
result above stated. The saws and oil
were found concealed in Vanarde s
garments. The saws are about eight
inches long, of extremely hard steel
and very we'll made. Accompany
ing them was a new frame of the
Simmons make. 1t is thought that
they would have been able to make
their escape in twenty minutes time.
Huisman was a1raigned before
Justice @. w. Burrows that after
noon and bound over to appear
for trial at the fall session of circuit
court Bail was placed at $1,000
which he was unable to secure.
It is thought that had their plans
been carried out the prisoners would
have escaped Saturday night on the
G. y. g @. by way of Potosi, Huis-
4Idn WOu4U OOuUU10SS udN0 SIdEb6u dI
once for the old country, after deliver
ing the tools to Vanarde.
Huisman was previously arrested
as being implicated in the assault on
Cyril Vanderbilt, the details OF which
are familiar to Herald readers. He
was released at that time because of
Insufficient avidence
Since the discovery of of their Jail
breaking plans the prisoners have
manifested in various ways their keen
disappointment at the failure of their
scheme, which they were entirely con-
fdent would be successful. The two
Belgians are now confined in two
separate cells away from the other
prisoners. They as we'll as the others
believed to have been implicated in
TIE plot will be kept under the closest
surveillance the remainder of their
terms