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Show TOM WORK'S LATEST MAKES DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL. He and a Companion Overpower Jailer and Make Their Escape, Only to Be Recaptured. Tom Horn, tho condemned murdorer of "WIllIo Nickell, tho ranch lad who was nssasslnntcd two years ago last month, and Jim McCloud, tho Dig Horn county dosiiorado, who Is alleged al-leged to havo murdered Don Mlnnlck, tho Dig Horn county sheepman, and committed other crimes for tho cattlo-mon cattlo-mon of that section for pity, escaped from tho Laramie county, Wyoming, Jail at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning, but woro recaptured near tho Jail within a few mlnutos after thoy roachod tho outside. McCloud was slightly woundod In tho loft thigh, and Horn was badly boaton on tho head and neck by tho men that captured him. Under Shor-Iff Shor-Iff R. A. Proctor was boaton up by tho dospcrados, but Is attending to duty. A gonoral flro alarm was sounded, sound-ed, which brought thousands of poo-plo poo-plo Into tho strcots, and tho nows that Horn had oscaped Bprcad llko wlldflro. Men and boys hurried to tho jail with rifles and pistols and Joined In tho pursuit of tho outlaws. Horn was captured by Theodoro Aldrlch, who fired eoveral shots at tho raur-doror. raur-doror. Horn was oxhaustcd, but ro-cclvcd ro-cclvcd a tcrrlblo boating at tho hands of Aldrlch. McCloud was trailed to a barn and compelled to surrondor. Attempts woro mado to get tho prisoners pris-oners away from tho officers, but a do-tormlncd do-tormlncd stand by tho latter and tho Inlluenco of tho conservative men pro-vontcd pro-vontcd mob violence. Horn has been planning for sovoral months to ovor-powor ovor-powor Jailer Proctor at feeding tlmo In tho morning, and Sunday morning tho long-waited opportunity nrrlved. Horn asked Proctor to bring a cup of wator, and as tho ofllcor oponcd tho door of tho corridor of tho cngo In which Horn and McCloud woro confined, con-fined, they throw tholr wolght against tho door, pushed It open and sprang out upon tho jailor and boro him to tho floor. After a torrlblo strugglo with Proctor, Proc-tor, In which McCloud wns shot In tho thigh, tho two men escaped from tho Jail only to bo recaptured. |