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Show Preparing for Escape. A very neat preperation for escape by Roxy, Red, and Richards from the jail at Blackfoot was nipped in the bud by under Sheriff Bassett on Friday. Bassett had noticed that something was going on and kept a close watch, and on Friday found that Roxy had by some means obtained an old table knife with which he had cut the rivets from his shackles and put in some wooden pins, blacking the ends to make them look like iron. The knife had then been passed into the cell where Red and Richards were and they had theirs nearly cut oft. The probability is had it not been for the watchfulness of under Sheriff Bassett there would .have been a grand jail delivery, as sixteen prisoners are confined there. Blackfoot Register. i |