Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-09-04
Federal PRISONER ESCAPES
FROM THE COUNTY JAIL
SAWS OFF TWO STEEL BARS AND
ESCAPES THROUGH OUT.
SIDE WINDOW.

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at large. He made clever escape
and effected it by means of small
table knife which he had made into
a file or saw by pressing the blade
of the knife against the sharp edge
Of a screw which held a window fas-
tener. With the knife he reached
through his cell bars and sawed off
one bar of steel that guards one of
the west windows of the second story
of the Jail. The adjoining bar he
also sawed off at the bottom, but ap-
parently did not have time to finish
the job as he bent and wrenched the
bar sufficiently to allow him to crawl
through into the window where
wire screen was cut through, the
screen frame removed, and the pris-
oner made his escape by tying a
blanket.to one of the bars of the win
dow and descending from the second
story to the ground.
Rogers was one of two men arrest
ed In Burleigh county on the charge
of breaking into the postoffice and
robbing the safe at Mckenzie. He
has been in the Stutsman county Jail
for about week and has been lock-
ed in a cell each night until Thursday
night, when he made an excuse that
he expected a visit from his attor-
ney, whom he had seen during the
day, and asked to be allowed to re-
main in the narrow corridor sur
rounding two cells in order to talk
to the lawyer in the evening. Dep
uty Russell Wright was alone in the
Jail until 8 o'clock when he was call
ed away, and some time during the
night the prisoner made his escape.
His work of preparation had evident
.ly been done before, and he only
awaited the opportunity of being in
the corridor to complete his escape.
How he came into the possession of
the knife Is not known, but it is sup,
posed that he secured it from some
person within the Jail. 1t was one
of the children's knives, and the blade
was made into a saw with fine sharp
teeth, and served as an excellent cut
ting instrument for even the hardest
of steel bars. The prisoner reached
from the cell and partly sawed off
the bars, and when left alone finish
ed the job from the outside of the
cell.
AS soon as the escape of the pris-
oner was learned the police and con-
stables in various parts of the state
were notified by Deputies Rutgers
and Wright, also the United States
marshall's Office at Fargo, and every
effort will be made to recapture the
prisoner. His description is as fol-
lows: He is about 25 years of age,
square jaw, pug nose, sandy hair and
complexion, stubby beard of weeks
growth, feet 10 inches high, weighs
1853 pounds, wore soft black hat, soft
shirt and black belt, with good brown
suit of clothes and tan shoes.
1t was learned Friday that the 9TH
er man, Rogers pal, charged with the
postoffice robbery at Mckenzie, and
who was confined in the Burleigh
county Jail, had also made good his
escape last night from the Jail. A
reward Of $50 has been offered for
his capture. He is somewhat similar
description to Rogers who escaped
from the Jail here, being 27 years
old, s feet IL inches high, sandy
complexion and hair, weights ITO
pounds. It is q singular coincidence
that both prisoners escaped the same
night. Rogers was being held here
to await q hearing in the U. 8. court.
The desperate determination of both
men to escape jail indicates their
guilt and that the officers had caught
the right men VINO rODDe0 tne "Ae
Kenzie postofice.. Although young
in years.. the two men are old timers
in crime and experts in burglarizing
safes and Jail breaking.
No Trace Of Escaped Prisoners.
Nothing has yet been heard from
the escaped prisoner, Rogers, who
sawed his way to liberty Friday night
at the county jail. Neither has his
partner, Fitzpatrick. who escaped
from the county Jail at Bismarck the
same night in the same way, been re-
captured. Both men are smooth
operators, evidently old hands at the
business. It is remarkable fact
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