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Show JACK BEEGAN ESCAPES. He Leaves a Deputy Marshal in the Lurch. There are not many names which are better known between tho Missouri Mis-souri river and the Pacific ocean than Jack Beegan. From before the building of the overl uid railroads the owner of that uamo h:w floated through this western country, has investigated in-vestigated the jails of Colorado, slept in the Wyoming prisons, been the subject of police court trials down on the Bay, and for more than two years has been in custody in this city; but once more'he is on the wing, breathing the pure air of heaven a other mortals do, though perhaps not with the same freedom. On Tuesday in the district court Beegan was tried by a jury and convicted con-victed of robbing a man named Sharp in this city, about two years ago The court delayed pronouncing sentence sen-tence on the prisoner, who was again placed on trial yesterday morning for the crime of manslaughter. Toe occasion ol the charge ,was tho killing, at a saloon in this city, early in '72, of the notorious rough, Ned Doyle. The trial occupied the entire session of court, the jury last evening returning a verdict of guilty as charged, but recommended that the court exercise mercy in passing sentence sen-tence on the prisoner. Shortly before dark last evening, Beegan requested the privilege of being taken to a certain place on East Temple street, where he alleged was some of his clothing which he desired de-sired to obtain. Deputy Marshal Griffith was sent with the prisoner, as a guard. On arriving at Lollin's saloon the two entered and each drank a glass of liquor; some of the gentlemen who were present say the deputy was tossing off his Becond glass of the fiery spirit, when Beegan sprang through tho back door, and a dark hall in the rear of the bar room , leaped over a high board fence, into the yard back of tho Saddle Sad-dle Rock restaurant. . Deputy Griffith followed closely, and climbing the fence drew a pistol on Beegan, but , the latter, quick as thought, Beizud Mrs. Wagner, of the Saddle Rock, aud placing her between himself and the revolver, entered the restaurant, rushed through the front door to East Temple street again, and was off like a shot, and if not actually "over the hills and far away," was "lost to sight, to memory dear." When Beegan entered the rear door of the restaurant, the deputy marshal dropped from his position" on tho fence and rushed back through the saloon, pistol in hand, when he suddenly sud-denly stubbed his toe against something some-thing and fell sprawling on the floor. When he gathered himself up and gained the front door, Jack was no where to be seen. Later in the evening William Kirby was arrested by a deputy marshal and taken before Commissioner Toohy, to answer the charge of ""line tho prisoner to escaps. It was alleged that K-iroy-irippr! !u3ith when be was running through the saloon, thus causing him to fall as above, and it was so testified before the commissioner, who held the defendant de-fendant in bonds of $10,000 to await the action ot the grand jury. ' This whole afl'.tir is disgraceful in the extreme, ex-treme, but no part is more so than the outrageous proceeding of commissioner com-missioner Toohy; however, it is on a par with other official acts of this judge, and when the man is taken into consideration, it ought not to surprise sur-prise anyone. The Hekald upholds no one lor viulatiug a law, and much lees would sustain a person in assisting assist-ing a convicted felon to escape. It is a crime which should be punished severely; but who eyer heard of $10,-000 $10,-000 bonds being required for such an offense, even though all that is alfeged against Kirby be true? The fixing of the bail at so large a Bum simply amounts to close confinement confine-ment for Kirby t'dl the March term ot court. Even if he had committed murder it could have been no more severe with him. However, Toohy is commissioner; "put a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride it to the devil." Kirby was taken to the city jail immediately after the examination. examina-tion. If there is a power which can punish pun-ish the United States marshal, he is the one who should be subjected to severest reprimand for entrusting criminals to deputies who will enter saloons and drink with their prison- j era. The escape of Beegan last night was not the first instance where aj prisoner has taken French leavo of: Maxwell's deputies, but it is to be hoped there will be no more such instances in-stances to chronicle. If the U. S. marshal cannot obtain the services of enough trustworthy men to transact the business of tne office, then it is timo for him to step down and out, or j for government to import a posse for the special benefit of their agent here. |