Show PLAN WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER Timely Discovery Prevents Es Escape Escape cape of Three Noted Desperadoes Reno Nev Feb Gor Gordon Gordon don one of the three desperadoes who have been trying to break out of jail itt at Elko has made a sensational con confessIon confession following a third effort tl to ea cape The third attempt at a delivery was discovered after the prisoners had filed off their handcuffs and broken their Oregon boots into fragments They tore up a heavy iron bar and with pieces of iron several feet long were preparing to kill the jailer when he entered t to feed them They were found lying In wait for him and were rushed by four men who overpowered them and chained them to the cells Gordon says that he and his two companions SterlIng and Watson were furnished wIth files knIves and gun gunpowder gunpowder powder by a trusty Guns were planted outside the jail and after killing kUlIng the jailer jaller they Intended to break for forthe forthe the hills and kill kIIl anyone any one who might pursue them With the powder they had blo blown theIr heavy steel Oregon boots to pieces and with the saws had removed their handcuffs The trusty wIll be held to the grand jury Several lives would have been lost had the plot been successful |