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Show . m AN ATTEMPTED JAIL DELIVERY. It was Almost Successful, and Only Frustrated Frus-trated by an Alert Guard. About 10 o'clock last evening one of the most daring attempts at jail breaking ever . heard of in this "vicinity was made at tha county jail, and that it was not successful is due to the vigilcnce of Sheriff Burt's night watchman. Last Sunday Conway Gorman was re. . manded to a cell in the cellar for tampering with the locks of the cells above. Aboufc 10 o'clock last night the night watch mai; heard a peculiar noise in the jail building,,' but could not locate it for some time. Av last he he beard the noise of breaking woodA up near the eaves on the west side of tho j building, and immediately notified Sheriff ' Burt and his deputy, who proceeded to third story of the building, where they found Gorman, who was supposed to bo securely locked up iu the cellar, with an ax in his hands, with which he had been chop- ping awty tne woouen siats or me uor-, nier window, preparatory to makinj a de- scent to the ground. He was easily recap- tured and removed to a place of safety, and a further investigation showed that he bad cut a 9x12 piece out of the partition plate between the cell he was in aud an empty one adjoining, which was unlocked aud. opened into the cellar. From the cellar he climbed up by the cell shaft to the third story, where he was found. To show how well his plans were laid, he was preparing . to get down out of the east window, as on the west the sheriff's big dogs were tied within a couple of rods of the building. Gorman, when questioned, stated that he had cut the three-eighths steel plate in his cell with the shank of his shoe. He had been working on it steadily for six days. Gorman was doing a year for burglarizing burglariz-ing the Kentucky liquor store. |