The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-30
THREE BREAK
JA|l;; CAUGHT
IN MANDAN
Alleged swindlers Form Rope Of
Quilts and Make Their
Escape.
TWO WOMEN ARE
BROUGHT INTO CASE
Night Captain Martineson, Deputy
sheriffs WeIeh and Olson Assist
in Capture.
TWO WOMEN ARE
BROUGHT INTO CASE

While deputies OF Sheriff J. p.
French secured the city for the COM
planning witness against the three
gamblers arrested Sunday, the prison
ers in the case calmly tied quilts to-
gether twisted the lock in their cell
loose with a room handle, slid from
the second story of the county Jail to
the courtyard and made their escape
shortly after o'clock last evening.
Three hours later, l.. Bales, v. Ames
and H. v. Hochmaster, the alleged
gamblers were arrested on the North
ern Pacific platform at Mandan as
they were about to board train No.
l for the west. Figuring in the cap
ture were Night Captain Martineson,
Deputy Sheriff Welch. Police Com
missioner C. N. Kirk and Sheriff Os-
car Olson of Morton county. The
three were returned to the county Jail
this morning.
Loses Interest In Case.
Members of the sheriff department,
the police and the states attorney
laid bare this afternoon information
which they believe was responsible
for Emil Boggart. Maddox man who
claimed to have been swindled out of
$3.50 in a poker game with the men
and the chief complaining witness,
losing all interest In the case.
Late yesterday afternoon the three
alleged gamblers were visited in their
cells by Charlie Wise and George
Wise, Jr. Bismarck men. Not long
&fter~ that the complaining Witness
disappeared. States Attorney Nc
Curdy is of the belief that the three
under arrest gave the Wise men mon
ey with interest to$ be returned to
Boggart to shut off His case and tos-
timOny. - sxsS wy ."s
In the office OF the sheriff last night
were States Attorney McCurdy and
Sheriff j. p. French. They awaited
the return of BOggart for whom de-
puties had been sent. The case had
been set for 8 o'clock last night. It
was during this hour and the half
hour following that the men planned
their escape.
Women Arrested in Deal,
Following the dash for liberty two
Of the trio walked to Mandan and the
third hired an automobile. The three
spent a portion Of the night with two
women until it was time for the ar
rival of the westbound North Coast
Limited which was several minutes
late. Getting information of these
women, they were arrested by Night
Captain Martineson and Deputy
Welch and brought to the city with
the three prisoners this morning to
answer to a statutory charge.
At the preliminary hearing this
morning, the charge of gambling was
dismissed and against Ames and
Hochmaster was preferred a charge
of Jail breaking and unlawful cohabi-
tation. The gambling charge was al
so dismissed against Bales, the new
complaint charging Jail breaking.
Hochmaster May Plead Guilty.
+ States Attorney McCurdy after
consulting with Hochmaster in his
cell at the county jail 'tat noon was
confident that this man would plead
guilty to both charges. No state
ments were forthcoming from the
two. Hochmaster declared to the
states attorney he wanted to get out
of this scrape the easiest way pos.
sible and that he would never take
up the life of gambling again. He is
a tall, heavy built man and flashes
large carat.
The case of the two women as we'll
as the three men will be called in
Police Magistrate Dolan's court this
afternoon.