Salt Lake Herald | 1878-03-12 | Page 3 | Attempted Escape

Attempted Escape. On Sunday night, says the Junction of yesterday, a prisoner confined in the Ogden jail tried to get cut by making a bole through the wall. He had apparently used a heated rod of iron and a case-knife to effect tbia purpose, and made an apertu e about ten inches Bquare, when his work was frustrated by comiog in contact with iron bolts and other ob-structions. ob-structions. The prisoner could net his head through but not hia shoulders, and daylight coming on put a stop to his labors and he was detected. Ho was taken to the county jail.