Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-03-31
DAMON AND PYTHIAS
STUNT ATTEMPTED


phoenix. Ariz.. March ai-Tho
sympathy of G. 4. Ellis. young man
r,ap,oyed at the Norman cafe. has
reasonably surely provided him with
a berth IN the pcnltontnr, lio was
admitted having attempted Go provide
W. y. Macy from IN, county Ia1 by
INTRODUCING into &c Ia.l lot OF iron
saws.
Fills Tor som.tim, had been taking
meals T.. ,do 3Ti on,rs aut generally
when he visited the Jan H. stopped
for conversation with Maxcy. WHO
Is awaiting the action Of the grand
jury on the cha &C. OF burglarizing
the pastimc pool rooU.
The saws, according To the admits.
sion OF ellis. who Nts arrested ycs-
tcrday morning Natc taken into the
Jail several dlts ago How their
presence was discovered has not been
, stated by ans ono connected with the
shorln's onioe, bat after they we're
discovered Ga, rest was easy
The saws had b,cu bought or i
rupert clerk o., Talbo, 4 Hub
bard's tie dad NOT Inquire the namo
of tie youth Who bought them hut
| on SUNDAY afternoon while hc was
/ sitting In th. court house plaza hc
saw young man pass and gu into
| the Jail Iic recognized the young
man a. ia. individual to whom hc
had 4oid tho iron saws. lie Wa at
| once hllcd with suspicion as Ia the
| use for which they were Intended.
| when the ,hcrim's Office began
| making Inquiry about saws Rupert
| proved e. ho e quick aud valuable
source OF Information. The young
| man whom hc saw enter the iail was
| Ellis aud Ellis was arrested by Shcr-
| ~ HAYDEN at the cafe The young
man attempted no conccalmcnt. lie
said that MaNcy was his friend and
1t wa hi, policy 20 help his friends
out of trouble even though the trou-
BILE might bc IN jail
| The JAIN is no, much the worse FOR
| the saws They were fitted into q
| frame made Of a broom handle and IL
was rather an ingenious contriVanCc
hut IL was necessarily Intellectual for
the Pauk building company did not
maxi that Jail to- be sawed out Of
hy ordinary iron saws or any other
Kind of e saw that may be bought In
the open market.
IT Ellis had only known this he
might have saved the money be paid
for tho iron saws and he also might
have preserved his freedom. IT
| MaNoy lad been given all the saws
lof that KIND In Phoenix and had been
left free from interruption for a per-
| lod nf Il week he could not have cut
through one Of those specially chilled
steel bars.
The ouly thing he could have done
would have been to put himself in
tho hole little deeper by damaging
the jan that is. bv scraping the
paint nm the bars which under the
statutes Is a felony. He had already
accomplished that much before the
saws were found and ne will have
So answer To- that additional fc,on-
Iious charge.
Thr Young man had another scheme
for breaking out Of iail before tho
saws were smugglod into the pail.
For u week ne pretended 20 be sick,
%" could cat nothing and he was
most ostontatipusly sick when ever
any OF the sherins officers we're
around His prison mates pretended
| To- feel great solicltudc for him ana Ht
last thoy suggested tina. il would be
better 10 put tho sick kid" into the
e. woman's ccll. II did not strike the
prison authorities that the Young man
was sick enough for that and he was
l,u whcr' he was
The womau's cell We secure enough
for the average woman but the pris-
r. ou,r who really wants t. get away
i. tho knocking out of frw bricks
IWould hc very simple matter