Mohave County miner., 1912-03-16
Jail Break.

o'clock, Sumner Beecher noticed a man crawling through one of the up- per windows of the jail and dropping to the ground. He notified the sheriff
 who made a search of the jail and dis covered that one of the bars on the northeast window had been sawed in two, through which three prisoners had escaped. The other men were at once locked in the cells and the search for the escapes commenced. The names of the three escaping prisoners were John Harris. barber, committed for burglarizing the store of George A. Bonelli, and Abundio Marin and Frank Garcia. who are accused of the attempt to murder the Chinese baker, Fong Chee. One of the Mixlcans was found east of town by deputy Sheriff A. F. Harris and Harris was caught by undersheriff J. c. Lane near the Indian camps east of town, and they were soon back Tn their old cells. The hunt for the other missing Mexican was kept up until about two o'clock when c. M. Stowe ran across him Tn the hills east of town, where he had crawled into one of the many caves in that section. Mr. Stowe was soon re- inforced by the arrival of the other of- ficers and soon had the fellow back tracking Jailward. The officers have all kinds of good things to say of Mr. Stowe's efficiency in tracking the es- caping prisoner to the place where he had taken refuge.
 A search of the jail brought to light 6 broken razor with which the window bar had been severed. The blade had at one time been used in duplex razor, one of the safety kind, and the work of saving through the bar had reduced it to about half inch in width and one inch long. The bar had been cut through during the time the men had been allowed the use of the corridors while the cells were being cleaned up. the final wolk hav- ing been completed the evening before the attempted escape. Sunday morn- ing the men had been allowed the us. of the corridors, as usual and they at once bent the bar up and proceed ed to make their get away. Harris and the two Mexicans were the smal- lest of the prisoners and they got through the small opening readily, but Jaggers, who is much larger, is said to have been unable to get out through this opening, although he tried it. 1 he search of the cells also revealed the fact that one of the bars of the cage had been cut to a depth of quarter of an inch all around, and the only thing that prevented the men from cutting the bar in two was the blade holder blocking further depth. The men told freely of the cutting of the bars when they found that equi- vocation would avail nothing, and Harris claimed that with proper tools he could make the break in an hour. The bars of the cells were understood to have been warranted case hardened steel and that the bars on the windows was of ordinary steel. It would ap- pear from the work done on them that the cage bars are soft steel and the window bars were of irou.
 In returning the jail breakers to prison the officers did excellent work and show what they can do when oc- casion may require it. Sheriff Gideon and his deputy Sheriff A. F. Harris are the two men that two years ago trailed man from Chloride through the rougaest mountains on earth to run him to earth near Powell, at the south end of the Blue Ridge range five days afterward, one of the greatest jobs of man travling ever known in the state.