Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-03-08

Spokane, and invited the saloonkeeper
Riley, and Jesse Howe a liveryman.
TO go along as their guests Howe had
become suspicious. however. and sent
a telegram to T. B. Enright. a Great
Northern detective at Spokane. notify
ing him that the pair were about to
leave for Spokane On the train the
four drank much in the drawing room
of the sleeper that they rode in. For
hours they caroused. and then suddenly
the door of the drawing room opened
and Enright and two other detectives
entered with drawn revolvers and or
dered the four to throw up their hands
Ihere was NO chance for resistance.
Bandits i'm kaIispell Jail.
Fraukhauser and Mcdonald were
searched. Between $4,000 and SIS 900
was taken from their pockets, all in
currency and most of the packages
bearing the straps of the Commercial
National Bank of Chicago. from which
the stolen money came. Riley and
Howe were turned loose. Frankhauser
and Mcdonald were locked up in Spo-
kane and subsequently taken to Kals-
pell There they tried to break out of
Jail, but had not succeeded in saving
through the bars of their cells when
the federal officers came from Helena
TO take them in charge They had OBJ
tanned three saws from some unknown
source, and when they left the Jail in
kalispell. each managed to take along
a saw concealed in his clothing.
When they We're searched in iail at
Helena. McDonalds saw was discov-
cred and taken from him by a jailer
but Frankhauser managed to keep his
and get it into his cell with him
During the course of the next few
weeks Frankhauser managed to saw
through the bars between his cell and
the corridor, and to get the saw to Nc
Donald, who did the same Then be-
fore daylight one morning in March
1908. they both removed the bars from
their cells and get out into the cor
rider, at the end of which was a
small window leading into an alley
at the back of the Jail With much
difficulty they managed to saw some
screening loose and pry the bars out,
after which by stripping themselves
naked, they managed to squeeze
through to freedom.
Dressing themselves. they passed
hurriedly through town and took to
the mountains up Dry Gulch Near
the top of the divide they hid under
two blankets they had brought along,
on top Of which they piled saplings
to hide the cloth. While there they
heard a posse riding along near them
That night they returned to Helena.
and obtained food by robbing some
houses along the edge of Mount Hell
ena.
FugitiveS Travel Eastward.
Early in the morning they started T
for Great Falls, following the railroad
until they reached the mountains. At
ter that they kept to the hills, stealing
food at night from ranch houses and
sleeping mostly in the daytime. Pass
ing Wolf Creek and Cascade. they
finally reached Great Falls, but skirted
the town and made over the hill
toward Fort Benton, where they de-
cided to steal boat and drift down the
Missouri
They found a big canoe and robbed
2 warehouse to provision it, but just
as they were about to cast off a boat
approached the shore and they were
forced to run. taking practically moth
ing with them. After various adven-
lures they reached Havre where they
several houses, securing
needed clothes and food. Walking and
riding the rods on freight trains, they
az length reached Williston n D.. and
finally got to Fargo. Crossing to
Moorehead they entered restaurant to
eat. when the police chief and another
officer arrested them On the way to
The police station, according to a pre-
arranged plan with his accomplice,
tripped one of the Off
GERS, broke away and ran. He escaped.
as did Mcdonald the latter being
wounded He was not captured again
but died later from disease and the
injuries he sustained.
Frankhauser went on to Glendon.
On the Northern Pacific, working as a
eableman for three months, but soon
was involved in some burglaries and
again arrested. He was brought back
20 Montana. where he was tried in
January, 1909, and sentenced to life
at Leavenworth.