Bisbee daily review., 1913-06-26
HELD ID COURT IN s5,OOO AFTER
 SENSATIONAL ATTEMPTS ESCAPE
George Les Charged with Vicious Offenses Blows Out Wall of Jail with Powder Furnished Him from Outside - Re-taken in Dash Mexican Line = Investigations Being Carried on May Bring Other Developments

Charged with statutory assault, in- volying Clara Wilson, twelve year old girl, George Lewis was held to the SupeF.or Court yesterday from the court of Justice Smith at Lowell in the sum of S5,O06 George Tennick. arrested on a similar charge, was dIs- issed. there Seing no evidence tO hold him. ArTaiEHmeut or Lewis on a charge -oi jail ,breaslng with attendant dssurrlctieH of iaii pr9t.erty. vas post Doned untl tomorrow morning at 10 o'eloek This charge day morning shortly pesore | o'clotS Lewis blew hole m the wall. of t!ie Lowell Jail with charge of powdcr and escaped taking fight gC NacO with intention Of crossing the line. Ee was frustrated in this through rhe prompt action of Deputy SherlII Biily Graham who reoapJured him within loo feet of the line Oi lSaco two hours after his escape. It was Lewis sec ond attempt within 4S hours.
 On the whole the Lewis case is one of tlTe most sensational that has come up in local police cIrcles in a long time. A good deal more may come from it than has yet develop ed. Among otner tnings the mother Of the twelve year o.d Lewis girl may be involved As much was threaten ed last night by foremost persons iu society work for improved moral con ditious. These had learned that the mothers example has been bad. Ia this connection it was Feaiizedd las. serI,~ |, that as much as years ago he found the now I2 year old girl shivering in Brewery Gulch after I o'clock of a cold winter night bare headed and bare footed. The child said she had been left by her mother aad sister when they went away from the Lowell! beer garden in the company of two men and that she had walked in town trying 10 find them. The sister re- ferred to is said to be less than IS. The officer took the chiid to a resiau- rant and bought her food, subsequeHt- ly turning her oyel to a boarding house with money for a nights lodg irg and breakfast He left report of the mater for rcEular officers 10 take mp next mCraiTg. but for some reason the case was not pursned at he time
 This was the cb'ld who yesterday in the presence Of her mother, the a. cused LeW4s, the court officers. aTsoT neys and stenographers told ia e low voice with seeming sinCsI eyy a4u truthfulness- of alleged assali.s cog. mitted upon her Ly Lewis, nlmug places and dates. Lewis sat through it without apparrbnt realization O. the enOrmity of the Offense emerged or without a great deal of care. His at titude in this. respect had been the same from he first. although its sin cerity is beliei by his two dsspeT- ate attempts al escape.
 No other witness than the child was puu on the stand. Attorney John w Ross for the defendant permitted mat, ters 10 go to the court as they looked following her evidence, and such figlt as may be made for Lewis will come up in the superior court. lis plea as entered yesterday was not guilty He has strenuously denied the trUthful ness Of the girls charge.
 Against Lewis is h.s reputation about Lowell, where he has been f3l about nine months. He came herz with a carnival company, with N hiCt he was Irave.ing aG a pug'isr. Atts: leaving the carnival dcufpanv, he hung about for time paradug his repu tation as a pugilist and seeking . fight Subsequently he went to wO-l in the mines, where he has since beer employed off and on Lately h3s ac tions with little girls aooEt LoWel had been viewed as suspicious and re gently attracted the attention of Dep uty Sheriff Graham, who investigated with result of the arrest of Lewis be ing made on last Sunday.
 When the door of the jail was open ed Sunday evening to permit a man tC enter with food, Lewis made a dasi and escaped to the road. Graham pursued Lewis stumbled after h. had gone a couple hundred yards ans went headlong into ditch lie Wal there overcome by Graham and re turned to the jail.
 Sometime Tuesday, probaaiy in th' evening, powder was passed to Lewis supposedly through the steel screen ing in the ventilators opening thrOusl the wall of the cell room in whici he was confined This may have bee done from the street side or by mean of some one climbing over the higi board fence on the lower side of ta jail During the night Lewis made small hole in the steelbarred winco7 sill in his cell and placed the pOwde there. He then twisted a defectiv lock between this cell and the large
 rooTu occuufpd Inv afghf other uris oners. Gathering the three mattress es from this room and the one iron