Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-09
LARGEST NUMBER OF PRISONERS IN JAIL
 FOR SEVERAL YEARS
County Jail At Tombstone At Present Time Has Fifty Two Confined There. Sem sational Escape r

IOMBSIONE, May 6.-(Specldl)- The county jail at the present time contains more prisoners than it has for number of years. There are fifty two now on the register at that insti- tuition. Of that number eighteen are serving time sentences from thirty to sixty days. five for violation of the pI1- hibition amendment, two for simple assault, and one for gambling; eight for petty larceny; Oen for carrying q deadly weapon. and one alleged in- sane. Of tLose held to await the ac- tion of the superior court there are three for highway robbery; three for burglary; one for conspiracy to com- init burglary; two for statutory rape; sixteen for violation of the prohibition amendment; two for resisting an ofti- cer; one for grand larceny; one for an assault with a deadly weapon and one for passing a bogus check.
 The other five are held under charges of murder. Edwin Scarabor- ough, who was convicted of the mur- der of John Clifton and sentenced to life, but who has been held pending an appeal 10 the Superior Court. In this connection it is reported that Scarborough has asked his attorneys Q have the appeal dismissed so that he can be taken to Florence 10 begin the serving of his time. It is expected that the order will be made within the next few weeks. Leandro Maldo- nadO, charged with the murder of Walter Brooks in Bisbee last June. who will be tried at the coming term of court in June. Mike O'Connor. of Douglas. charged with the murder of Young Davis at Douglas. John Dick erson and J. Seay. charged with murder, also from Douglas.
 With the above list to be tried and several weeks to go the June criminal calendar promises to be one of the largest that has been held for some time. A few of those who are held for a violation of the prohibition amendment are waiting for a chance to plead guilty and will as soon as the county attorney can fix up the in- formations. With the addition of the ten cases of boOtleggers that have been held to await the action from Douglas and Bisbee it looks as though the term would be continued well into the month of July.
 Makes Sensational Escape.
 L. Lambert, of Bisbee, who was be- ng brought over from Bowie on a charge of introducing liquor into the state, made a sensational getaway from here Saturday. He was being brought over from Bowie by Constable Pruitt with several others. Fruits son was in one machine in the lead with a man named H. Y. Louty and the back part of the machine filled with seized booze. Tn the second machine was Lambert with his ma chine loaded with Personal use while in the next machine was Pruitt and two others, Ignacio Frasco and D. B. Green, who were held on a similar charge. The personal use procession proceeded in this manner from Bowie. through Wilcox, Cochise, Courtland. Gleason and into Tombstone. As the parade passed down Allen street and was to turn at the corner of Third street according t0 the program, Lambert's machine became unman- ageable and went straight down the street at high rate of speed. Fruit was unable to follow at the time. as he had to make the court house first and unload his passengers and bag gage. This he did as soon as possible and sthen he taTted to try and catch the runaway machine. In the mean time the sherifrs office tried to get hold of an officer at Benson but there was nothing doing.
 Pruitt made the time from Tomb stone to Benson in less than fIty minutes. a distance of twenty-eight miles. where he found out that Lam bert's machine was still running away at the rate Of fifty miles per hour to- ward Pima county. Pruitt in high and when he had reached a point a few miles from Vail. he sighted his man. The chase continued into Vail, where Lambert quit his machine and took to the brush. Pruitt took the machine and booze into custody and returned to this city. Lambert is still among the missing.
 Superior Court.
 The attention of the superior court was taken up today in the trial oi several divorce cases and the making of orders in number of probate cases.
 In the case of Allen vs. Allen, a decree of divorce was granted. Both parties are residents of Douglas.
 In the case of the estate Of \. As paugh. an order was entered requiring the administrator to file his annual account. The estate consists of Douglas property.
 The Standard Fashion company has filed suit against I. Kline. of Douglas, for debt in the sum of S3i1.03.
 A decree of divorce was filed in the case of X. J. Brown vs. Stella Brown.