, 1923-07-13
FIVE PRISONERS
IMPLICATED IN
BOLD ATTEMPT
Outside Assistance Seen
: In Saving Of Bars to
County Bastile.

One Of the most daring at
tempts at a jail break in the
history Of the Natrona county
Jail was frustrated Thursday
evening shortly after IL
o'clock when one Of the depu-
ties heard a steel saw working on
the bars of a window on the north
side Of the bastile. An investigation
showed that ono bar had been cut
through and two more were nearly
severed. A search disclosed three
small steel saws that had been
smussled into the jail wednesday.
Five of the 2e prisoners. including
one of the three women incarcersted
there at the present time. are i'm
plicated in the attempted break for
liberty. All fve are waiting for the
fall term of court with the prob
ability of long sentences being melted
out to them II found guilty. Three
are to be tried for the theft of an
automobile with a maximum OF seven
years in the ~penitentiary hanging
owe their heads. The other two arc
up for fraudulent check writing with
sentences Of from one 10 three years
looking them In the face.
A thorough investigation OF the
jail break this morning by Perry
Morris, shows conclusively that the
Job was to nave been pulled" with
help from the outside. The three
saws were passed through a hole
torn in the screen on a west side
window Wednesday night. The wife
Of one of the four men implicated is
believed to have engineered the deal
II she did not actually pass he saws
into tho prison. She a been writ
ing letters to her husband. post
marked Evanston. Wyo., but 1t is
thought she has been in hiding in
Casper for the last few days. She
has done time in the past and was a
notorious dope fiend on the Sandbar
up TO a year ago when she disap-
peared suddenly from Casper. The
eherin's office has so far failed to
pick her up
The plan Of the i've to get their
liberty, as disclosed this morning.
was to saw four bars out of the out
side window on a north side window
making a hole large enough for them
70 crawl out. In the meantime their
c~onfederates outside were to have
passed an acetylene torch and hose
through the window with which TO
CIT the locks of the cells proper. The
torch could not be used or the win
dow because the flame would "
given the job away.
The two co~nfederates sat on the
steps of the Illinois Pipeline COM
pany's building. across from the
county building. last night about II
o'clock waiting for an opportunity TO
pass the torch through the window
on the other side OF the jail
Ono of the five men pleaded Illness
last evening whe II came time TO
lock up the prisoners for h night.
He said that he could not get enough
air IN his cell and asked to be per
mitted to remain in the Pull pen.
After the jail break was frustrated a
second prisoner was found in the
s.bulI PEN" who had hidden on the
top Of n cell when the rest OF the
prisoners were locked up.
These two were saving away
merrily at the iron bars on the win
dow when the squeak of the rasping
teeth against the metal was brought
to the attention Of the deputy In
charge Of the jail for the night
All i've implicated In h anair
have been confined to their cells ana
will be given no further liberty dur
ing their Incarceration. Sheriff Morris
stated that the other 81 prisoners
would probably not have taken ad'
vantage of their chance to get away
ms all OF them are either serving
comparatively short sentences or are
in for minor offenses.