The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-18

] lut SOulu Slut dIl' down to Willoughby avenue.
 The men must have looked like col cred individuals for there was great scattering of soot everywhere
 Trail Quickly Lost. Deputy Lucy was assigned tt watching the lower part of the city and Deputies Hardy and Garsters picking up the trail at the ash dump | followed 1t down to shed on Will | loughby avenue and there lost al trace of the two escaped prisoners
 Hardy and Garster spent the nigh in making a search of the country tC Rudy's place on the Aux Bay road 1 They returned about 10 o'clock this morning
 May Have Stolen Canoe.
 Hardy and Garster had hardly re turned to the jail after the all night search, when Capt. George Maud of the fisheries boat Mature telephob ed that his canoe in the old Pacific Coast warehouse near the ferry slip had been stolen during the night
 Right on top of this informatin, Deputy Lucy telephoned in from the Standard Oil dock that two men had been seen shortly after 10 o'clock last night, a short distance off shore, raddling quickly down the channel As the night was dark a good de scription of the men could not be secured.
 Deputies Hardy and Garster left at 10:30 o'clock down the channel and Lucy reported back to the Mar shaPs office to instruct men who are out searching on other avenues of possible escape.
 Circumstances of Escape.
 When the bars of the cell tank and the ventilating shaft, or chimney, were sawed has not yet been re- vealed as the deputies are all en- gagged in searching for the missing men. Guards, however, state that there had been much singing, loud talking and an extra use of the bath tub in the cell tank for the past two weeks. When questioned about the use of the bath tub, the prisoners stated they were washing clothes. The running of water into the tub and the use of steam make a loud noise and it is believed that the work of saving the bars was ac- complished during the day time when the clothes washing process and singing were going on. The three men in the cell tank. questioned today, stated that Neel and Hightower escaped from the tank shortly after 830 o'clock last night, but they were not questioned further. The hack saw used in cut. ting the bars has not been found. This is also mystery as to how ii came to be smuggled into the tank
 The presence of the chimney and it's leading to escape must also have been communicated to the men by someone who knew the architectural features of construction of the court house building
 NeeI Escaped Before. Frank Neel was one of the three men who escaped from the north tank in the jail last February, the other two men being Walter Brown and H. E. Fenning. Neel and Fen ming were captured several days later but Brown is still at large. Neel arrived in Juneau last fall and it is alleged has a jail record to the westward.
 Ray Hightower was arrested in Petersburg last week and brought to Juneau where he was given a pre- liminary hearing in regard to the Kentucky pool room safe deposit box robbery. He was bound over to the next grand jury and in default of $5,000 bail was placed in the Federal jail.
 May Go to Prison. When Neel is captured, United States District Judge Robert w. Jen nings will be asked to send him tc the penitentiary. Neel was indicted with Smith and Baker for the theft of the gasboat Nugget and each sen fenced to six months. pending good behavior Judge Jennings stated that if the men proved unruly or dit not obey the rules of the jail. he would send them to the penitentiary the six months sentence therefore being condition.
 ! Deputy Marshal N O. Hardy 4las night cabled Judge Jennings. at Ret chikan. notifying him of the secap, of Neel and Hightower and request ing that not only Neel but tha Smith and Baker be sentenced to penitentiary. Deputy Hardy sait that Baker and Smith, being in on, way under suspended sentence or good behavior. are equally as guilt, as Neel, because they should hay, notified the jail authorities of the in tentions of the two men
 'l Hightower was indicted by the re cent grand jury on a petit larcen, charge but was acquitted by the fur, hearing the case. He was also on,