El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-15
NEW JAIL UP To
SPECIFICATIONS
That Is County Attorneys
Decision; Outer Door Open
Lets the Men Out.

Tnsofar a. the investigation Of
CONT a++o-nev ". H. Fryer goes,
ana tbst official has made a careful
-. - +ba situation. FL Paso
oo1,n.,... ESQ ooe roof garden Jail. two
Of the inner walls Of which have been
recently cut by prisoners. four Of
them escaning on one occasion, is alb
solutelv M to Specifications.
Mr. Erver looked up the blueprints
.++acbad 70 the Specifications, and
the sDecifications themselves. and
concluded that only the outer walls
and bars around the series of tiers OF
cells composing the jail were to be
caseba rdened steel, while the inner
construction. including the walls
which were cut by prisoners, was to
be Bessemer. or open hearth steel
81 lanes To Help Saw.
In order m ascertain whether the
outer construction was OF case
hardened steel Mr.. Fryer summoned
{ S1fder courthouse engineer. and
Instructed him TO make a test. Mr..
Snider procured three new hack saw
blades and entered the JAN He IN
vited Felix r. Jones, who is held on
Indictment in connection with the
killing of Thomas Lyons. Silver City
cattleman- to help saw through the
outer mart Of the Jail. The two. Snider
and Jones. worked on three different
places and the result Of their labors
was the wearing away Of all the teeth
of the saw blades and not more than
mere dents on the jail steel
Door Open For Fugitives.
The door at the end Of the first
floor tier Of cells, the same door which
Julio Iugo and his fellow cOnspirat-
ors in the successful jail breaking
plot found open, was Of casehardened
steel. If this door had not been
the others would have been COM
PEELED to cut through this. and would
have met the result Snider and Jones
did Monday afternoon. At least this
was the result OF Mr.. Flyers inves-
tigatiOn
As TO the attempted delivery Sun |
day night, participated in by Antonio /
Sanchez and Charles Harris, Harris |
told a Herald representative Monday |
afternoon that he had completed the |
hole in the wall five days previously, !
and that when deputies made an ex-
animation Of the Jail following the |
escape Of Lugo and his fellows, he. /
Harris, had an innocent looking pic |
ture hanging over the hole in the wall /
back of his cell
Unearths Harrfs's Tools.
Plumbers engaged by sheriff Seth /
b Orndorff Monday unearthed from /
the toilet apparatus in Harris's cell I
the tools used on the wall. They con- |
sisted Of two old razors, two pocket /
knives and a button hook. The razor /
blades were badly hacked, but the |
knives had suffered littlef rom their |
journey through the soft metal.
Harris said that he and Sanchez /
had on several occasions gone through /
the hole into the plumbers run and I
were expecting to escape at a time /
when they would find the door at the /
end Of the run open They were not i
as fortunate as Lugo and his CO.
plotters. how ever
Taking Prisoners Away.
In order, It was said. that the state 1
might get its prisoners before they 4
all escaped, Bud Russell. transfer 1
agent Of the state penitentiary, ar
rived in FL PasO Monday afternoon to /
get those prisoners who had been SEN
fenced TO the penitentiary. There are /
Il left and Mr.. Russell win leave for 1
Huntsville with them Wednesday
evening.