The San Francisco call., 1913-09-02
JAIL SAWED,
CRIMINALS
ESCAPE
Convicted Murderer and
Burglar Cut Through
Steel Bars
DESPERATE THUGS
FLEE IN DARKNESS
Make Incredible Flight
From Fourth Floor of
Alameda County Jail
DESPERATE THUGS
FLEE IN DARKNESS
Sheriff Barnet this morning offered
800 reward for the capture OF either
of the jaiIbreakers. Posses nrc scour-
ing the hills back OF Oakland and de-
tecfives and police officers nre COM
Quoting a close search of the old

Quoting a close search Of the old
Saving their way through three
sets of guaranteed toolproof half
inch Jail bars, and a steel cell floor
grating. and then climbing down
from the fourth story OF the Ala
media county tall by means Of rope
hnprovised from their cot blankets.
Robert Bradley. murderer. and Rob-
ert E. Graham. burglar. escaped be-
tween the hours of 1 and o'clock
this morning.
The discovery was made at 6
o'clock by Night Jailer Harry Wood
ley and Engineer Edward McLaugh-
lin. The jail breakers took with them
the tools they used and all materials
which might have been used as clews
as to how they secured the means
of saving their way to liberty.
They had been rated as desperate
characters by Sheriff Barnet and oc-
cupied cells in what the sheriff had
figured the most secure compart-
ments of the jail-the fourth floor
double cells
STATEWIDE ALARM GIVEN
Information was telegraphed at s
o'clock this morning to all police
chiefs and sherifrs throughout central
California to keep on the lookout FOR
the escaped prisoners.
Bradley was being held awaiting an
appeal on his conviction of the mur-
der of Special Officer J. A. Williams
in Oakland a year and a half ago,
for which. he had been sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Folsom peniten-
tiary. Three months after the mur-
der he had been arrested for vag-
rancy and was recognized by a de-
tective as Williams murderer. He
jail in July. 1912. and after being
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree was sentenced. December. 1912,
to life Imprisonment
VA aH1iflp AiiS Cc44LidtS, WHO ndQ 1OT
some time been on probation, at
tempted another burglary a few
weeks ago. Upon being halted on
the street by Patrolman Brock, he
attempted to escape and the officer
shot him in both legs. He was re.
moved to the receiving hospital and
admitted to the county jail August
25.
Sheriff Barnet and CHIEF Jai1er
Clark are at loss to understand how
the Jail breakers secured the tools.
FLED DURING NIGHT !.
Jaiior Woodley, in discussing the
break. said:
The jailbreak evidently was COM
mitted sometime between 1 and 6
o'clock. came on duty at / o'clock
this morning and made my rounds
as usual. At this time I opened the
door to the corridor of the cell &C.
cupied by Bradley and Graham and
talked to them. The lights were out,
the men were in bed and there was
nothing missing. I made my rounds
again at 3 o'clock and this time I
listened outside the corridor door and
heard no signs of noise.
"At o'clock, when / admitted the
engineer, found that three bars had
been sawed from the bottom of Brad
ley's cell. and that the grating and
three more bars from the outside
window OF the cell had also been re-
moved
SHERIFF. GIVES ALARM
Sheriff Barnet said:
we are doipg all In our power to
locate Bradley and Graham. l have
notified every sheriff and every chief
OF police in this part Of the state.
and do not believe that the men Will
long remain at large"