Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1920-05-25
HOW TO GET OUT OF'
JAIL IS EXPLAINED
Two Quartets Of Prisoners In Luna
County's Modern Jail Use Little
Brains; Much Concentration
PATIENCE Is ALSO NECESSARY
Last Wednesday Four Jailbirtls Made
Escape by Solving the Riddle Of
Fancy Locking Devices


twisted, Is a quite wonderful contriv-
ance. Sheriff w. q. Simpson will
probably verify this, for last Wednes-
day morning about o'clock four pris.
Oners escaped from the county jail.
that Is guaranteed 10 be water tight"
The worst Of II is that this is the Sec
ond time that prisoners have solved
the riddle OF triple steel bars ani
gotten on ;he outside Of the most mod
ern hausegow In this section Of the
world.
In itself, Jail delivery does not seem
10 he such n serious affair, but tragedy
often follows, especially when the pris-
Oners succeed In arming themselves and
have had the fortune to carry out we'll
laid plans. Had the last four TO es-
cape been armed, they could have shot
the sheriff and some OF his deputies
without the officers knowing from
whence came the bullets. Fortunately
the quartet that got away last week
had just enough intelligence to get out
and were without adequate plans TO
carry them to the land OF freedom in
old Mexico, for which they Immediately
struck out
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posing mechanism of the locking de-
vices In the Luna county jail would
quite appall the novice. but the jailbird
finds them exceedingly interesting and
they seem 10 create In his mind de-
sire to flout them by making escape.
II Is the game that irresistlbly draws
him to study the devices during the
long. long hours that he spends in his
cell, and even the poorest minds have
accomplished liberty twice within the
past few months. setting at naught the
finest art OF the safe designers and
locksmiths Psychologically II Is
demonstration Of what concentration
will accomplish; concentration that
would solve so many OF the problems Of
life could people come to see the posi-
bilities within their brains
Four Mexican petty criminals made
their escape several months ago, much
10 the chagrln of the sheriff and his
deputies, who noted the weaknesses of
construction the jail breakers had
found. anI corrected them. They folt
quite certain. until last week, that they
had nt last made 1t impossible so sue
cessfully deliver from the prison. No
more intelligent were the last four to
escape than the first four, as will be
seen by noting their criminal records
Emil Perry, cattle thief; Lafayette
Heinrich. burglar; Charles Kennedy.
attempt To rape; Bill Woods, thief.
These started from the same point as
their successful predecessors by utiliz-
ing the split link by which chains are
attached In support Of the iron beds
In each cell The split link makes an
excellent wrench and closed link II
good lever to add strength TO IL. The
plates that hold the locking bars are
put on with bolts, BRAIDED to prevent
them being turned. With the cell un
locked the bars of the "runaround' and
over the windows are easy picking
for the earnest seeker after freedom,
though they look quite impressive to
the casual observer. A lever, secured
from the locking device Of the cells,
soon allows them 10 be pried apart suf- |
ficiently TO allow the exit Of man
of moderate girth.
The four Mexicans that escaped some
months ago had confederates on the
outside with car and they were over
the line into Mexico before they could
be stopped, but the last party had not
organized their delivery so well and
found themselves on lonely desert
without water and food and thirty-rive !
miles from the border. Sheriff Simp- .
son and Deputies Smyer, Jackson and .
Davis were soon on the trail and fol- /
lowed the fugitives very fast along the .
III Paso road going east. Before reach
ing the llttle Florida mountains they
noticed that the tracks left the road [
and hit across country toward the
mountains. by IL o'clock the first .
fugitive had been captured, hiding In
the bottom OF Il rocky canyon, screened .
beneath some bushes, near the
gap on the Deming side Of the Little
Florida mountains. IL was late In the I
afternoon when the second man was
discovered quite close to the first.
which shows how easy il Is to hide I
from pursuors when among the rocks.
This man had crawled underneath a
fallen yucca plant and had covered
or almost covered-his protruding legs
by rocks and weeds.
The other two went over the Little
Florida mountains and were taken at
the Kill ranch by Chief OF Police Kealy
and Sim Holstein, who were there for
the specific purpose OF covering the
water hole These two fugitives had
built n fire on top Of the mountains
shortly before to burn the spines from
cacti In Gn effort to extract the mois-
ture from them. which illustrates their
plight. Mounted Policemen Wright and
Al Dalton were covering other water
holes and also 'cut signs In the noun
fains The fugitives are all back In the I
county Jail and will have another OPP
portunity TO prove that:
"stone walls do not prison make.
Nor iron bars a cage" {