Show 1 b Jailer Foils Cunning Plot PlotT 1 I T I ESTER PLUM PLUMMER IER serving six months for burglary transforms J-J J I spoon int into ke key declared to be he one of cleverest crest devices devices' ever cyer made in prison Draft call on da day after discovery sets him bim freel free l' l 1 J C Ji d 4 tj I b Ii f S 'S Sy y P k I Iut ut 7 a k I 0 C i it t J t. t J. J r. 1 a i 1 I I Al ra Takes made Cell Key Fr From m Inmate of oJ County County Coun Coun- ty Prison Schemers Plan to Escape by Cutting Bars and and Leaping From Froll Window Chief Jailer Al yesterday exhibited a cunningly fashioned ke key which was made In preparation for or a wholesale delivery from tho the county Jail Several Sc federal prisoners archeld arc aro held In the Jail with numerous men waiting trial on felony charges The Tho escape was to have havo been made October 20 It was planned lon long bug in ad advance advance ad- ad vance vanco and was checkmated October 0 when hen Prichard captured the ke key fash fash- from a table tablespoon poon by Lester Plummer In whose possession It was found and who had hoped to use It In helping his fellow telloW prisoners to escape es- es cape The stor story of ot the tho affair was S sUppressed suppressed sup sUp- P- P presse pressed b by Prichard hard until It became definitely known that the chance for a break was sas gone Though he failed In his plan to gain liberty for Cor others Plummer himself Is Isnow Isnow isnow now outside the prison walls The day after aCter Prichard took the tho key from him ho was called for tor military ser ice lIe Ho clad gladly accepted that means of ot leaving th thy Jail jall and accompanied b by an nn officer went to the railway station and entrained for Cor Camp Lewis Before leaving ln he ma made e a partial confession confession con con- telling the tho o officers all details of oC the plot except how ho he obtained whatever Information he had about the Jail jall keys kes The Tho key l e made macIe by Plummer Is declared declared de de- de- de dared by prison officials to bo be one o of the tho cleverest crest pieces of or un underworld I mechanical effectiveness eness ever brought i to their attention It fitted perfectly i the door of oC the hospital ward through which the prisoners had planned to tomake tomake make maJe their break according to Plummer Plummer Plummer Plum Plum- mer and swung back the heavy heaY bolt boltas as readily as does tho the key carried b by bythe the tho jailer jaBer The hospital ward is now unused According to tho tIm Information by Prichard the prisoners to toI toI I enter It and then at their Jel leisure ure to I cut the tho bars from a window and drop bedding to tho the ground to make their escape easy Plummer Is believed to have havo been tho the prime mover mo In the plot He lie was arrested on a charge of or bur burglary lar b bY Detective Bert Seager December 19 1917 On February 27 1918 he was sentenced to serve six months In the cou county n t Jull Working outside as a n. trusty trust he wall walked ed ort oft March 28 28 1915 but was re recaptured recaptured re- re captured May 15 and tort tortel forty eight el ht days das were ere added a ded to his original orl sentence He lIe Is la declared declare b by the officers to be bo boa ben a n burglar of or more than average knowledge of or tho the cracksman's vocation voca voca- tion To ro prisoners fellow-prisoners he ho Is said to have declared he could mako make a a. key for any lock ever manufactured After Arter being returned to the jail JalU Plummer was not allowed outside the walls but was employed In work which kept him In tho the basement that something something some some- When hen Prichard suspecting thing thins was amiss slipped quietly upon him Plummer had hall not only tho the k key but two well-soaped well files fUes which It Is isI should bo be believed e ho he had Intended I used in cutting cUlling the tho window bars In Inthe tho the hospital ward |