Arizona republican., 1917-09-29
JAIL DELIVERY
 NET T|GHTENS
 LIN THE GUILTY

Discovery early yesterday morning that the lock of a cell in the county jail had been completely sawed off, the finding of sharp pointed steel drills under one of the cells and the securing of information that steel saws with which five prisoners expected to saw their way to freedom had been broken into bits, thrown into a coffee pot and afterwards turned into the sewer, car ried out the suspicion of county, city and federal authorities that a jail de- livery had been planned for the night before and that it came near being car ried out. Two additional arrests were made yesterday, Iva Dean, a pretty candy kitchen Salesg;r;, being taken in custody shortly before noon by Police- man Bush, Anderson and Vernon Culp, and Cliff Tillman. a gasoline salesman and automobile mechanic, being locked up later.
 That murder had been cooly planned in order to make sure that their plans would not be frustrated from within the jail, constituted one of the sensa- tional developments in the investiga- tion the authorities inaugurated yester- day morning. According to one of the men who expected to make his get away. the five who were in on the deal, feared that Hugh Wilder, a prisoner awaiting re-trial on a charge of mis- treating a deaf and dumb girl, would reveal their plans. In order that the threatened exposure could not be car ried out, one of the five said, it was planned to fill the jail bathtub with water and after tying Wilder hand and foot to throw Wilder into the tub where he would unquestionably drown. Only for the fact that they were unable to work expeditiously enough to saw their way to freedom during the night is be-
 lieved the plan to drown Wilder would have been carried out.
 That Judge Stanford had the at-
 tempted jail break in mind when he sentenced John Collins and Stacy Am
 mons yesterday morning, is believed by
 many An effort had been made at least in behalf of Ammons to secure suspended sentence. Collins and Am mons had previously entered pleas of guilty to charges of highway robbery When they came before the court yes terday morning. Judge Stanford direct ed that Collins be confined in the state prison for a period of not less than seven years and not more than twelve years Ammons was sentenced to serve not less than six years nor more than ten years in prison. Both Collins and Ammons had denied being implicated 1 in the attempted jail break but they are said to have admitted to some of | the officers that they had planned to make their getaway with the others. 1 The drills had been discovered under the cell in which Collins was confined. Mrs. Joe Kennedy, whose husband Is | in hn federal | charge of being a stacker, was held at ] tie city jail yesterday. She had been l arrested the night berore in company l with Jack Tharpe who but a few days | before had been released from the | county jail where he had been incar- | cerated in connection with a charge of | defrauding a hotel keeper. Tharpe was | also held at the city jail, as was C. l Kelsey. who had been arrested few | minutes after the police and sheriff s | office had landed Tharpe and the Ken | nedy woman.
 | Throughout the day the officers ques- l toned these separately and by evening l had secured scattered details of the en- | tire plot which pieced together made g 1 very conclusive and circumstantia | story. It was learned. so the officers | say. that Tharpe and the Kennedy l roman nlanned to borrow an automo-
 bile to which Tharpe had access The!
 were to take a ride about town and II
 ne course or this ride they were to en. counter Kelsey and another man. Ihel were to deliver the machine to these
 two and then after reasonable tlm'
 A report was to be made to the ponc' and the sheriffs office that they hat
 been heldup and the machine stolen
 This report, however, was not 10 p
 made until Tharpe and the woman .wer
 assured that the men in the Jall nat
 made their way from town. None o
 those supposed to be in on the plot t
 work from the outside to help those in
 side. were to leave town and all believes | that suspicion could in no way attac to them.
 The arrest of Iva Dean is said [ have resulted in giving the officers in formation as to how the saws wer smuggled into the jail It is elaine by the officers that upon close ques