Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-09-15
SIX PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM JAIL SUNDAY NIGHT
Three Are still A. large on stable
Fred Cobb taptnres Three ~
Rock island Dump.

a jail delivery occurred at the pot
Ter county Jail shortly before mid
u.tht Sunday u.rht 300 which q
prisoner. made their escape one o
these made no effort oleave th'
cty aud two other. were captured
/ by Constable Fred Cobb at the Rocl
/ Island dump shortly after tbe escape
A number OF officers spent the
remainder OF sunday might and all
\ day Monday in search of the Other
/ three escaped prisoner but nothing
| had been heard OF an OF them uI
I 900 % late hour laa ufeht
or the prisoner ihaf escaped. tWo
acro wanted oH felony charges
hesc we're Ralph aud Earl Arms
Kho gave their axes 40 seventeen and
nineteen and their home as Soda
| aprings. Idaho They we're arrested
few weeks AGO ou charges of steal
ug motorcycle, aud we're being held
awaiting tho action of the district
court
Two of tHe Others. WHO are sim
at large are Bob Brady. OF Guthrie.
Ky. and 20 man by rho name of N-en
lf GreeuViIe Texas. tlo we're he.us
held ON charges of ylsraucf a third
r. y Stanley of Chicago was being
held pu 90 charge 1f CARRYING siN-
huoter
The escape was made by saving
Boo twain 1000 iron bar about au inch
100 diameter and chilled steel 'I'
bolt about talf iara iu diameter
the Sis prisoners aHd about even
or eight other had been left 300 the
bull pen ou tine second floor When
thcy had made their way through tAn
window and iron screen they ie'
themselves down 20 tHe ground 1y
lu impr0,ised rope
o. e stated that thoy did ihe saw
ing sunday morning aud had every
thing ready bv noon They then
waited roo sometime after $3.50
sunday night no make their break
for liberty
IaIler Nuleu heard % noise but
thought u was rats and dropped back
10 sleep $ little later he Was arous.
ei by q Mexican prisoner ana as he
ran out the back door 10 investigate
the Mexican Yeario Gonzales. iu
formed him that .iX had already e..
capped
The MEXICAN hud tried 10 trll the
ailer earlier hut vas kept quiet m.
der threats of violence As soon Hs
the men who had threatened him
had escaped. he raised the alarm
The Mexican b. wanted in GRAY
County on a charge Of burglafizing
railway car az Tampa and taking
quantity of bot 'ed wine ne has
been held here for the past eight or
nine months and bias been an eyem.
ploty prisoner Two other Mex.
cans arrested 90, the same time are
still being ho'1
u is believed that Brady aud
stanley are che Two men rcsponi-
Die for thc delivery Both we're held
on minor charge hut DC is believed
hat they are wanted elsewhere on
more serious charges
ON SATURDAY both men we're strip.
ped and examined carefully. their
nea surements taken and every scar
noted and measured Zoo The hope thai
.hoy might bo identified elsewhere
Brady rs feet inch. has black
hair. dark complexion. aud light
brown eyes. and is "a years of age
Stanley D. feet DO '-. inches lieht
complexion. light Uayy hair. blue
eyes and Is '' wears of age
Both are hlg husky fellows o. is|
believed that with the minute de-
,cripiions they have 90 send out that
both men may be identified and cap
iurcd before than cau get out of the
tate.
Wren, the other man SIN no large /
+. mall of stature. about ieet :
inches Boo height light complexion,
about 23 years ui age lli- face is T
badly marked from the effect of .
mallpoN
None of these prisoners we're kept
locked up as tho Iail was pretty well !
filled up and none of them wore held .
ln serious charges. 10 was thought /
unlikely that any oi them would az /
Tempt an escape
% is believed that some of these .
prisoners were experts and that they
l1d fine sass concealed in a belt or
'IsrUher 10 was mot discovered when .
hey we're searched
ono of the escaped prisoners had
old companion boz JAN that two
i' them had broteu Jail Iu Colorado
ten day. boior. aud previous to
mar at Del Rio. Oklahoma
A. soon as Constable Fred cobb
lDard ot the jain delivery be- hurried
0 the Rock Island dump and con