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Show CUNNING DOES HIS STUNT Shakes His Shackles and Walks Out of Locked Cell. Cunning, the actor Jail-breaker, now showing at the Orpheum theater, Monday Mon-day afternoon repented to an audience at the city prison tho stunt with which he has mystified nonrly all tho sheriffs and police departments of the country. He appeared at headquarters about -1 o'clock and requested to bo handcuffed and locked In the strongest cell In tho bnstlle. He was accommodated. Acting Chief of Police Burbldgo weighted him down with Oregon boots and nnklo shackles and his wrists wero fastened together to-gether by two pairs of handcuffs. Thus weighted and shackled, he was led to a strong steel cell in the boys' ward of the prison and securely locked In. Tho audience, composed largely of police officials, of-ficials, theatrical folk and newspaper men. then retired to the outer corridor of the Jail and awaited developments. In exactly eleven minutes Cunning was heard knocking loudly on I he corridor door, and a momeut later It swung open and ho walked out, having shed his shackles In the Inner ward coll." |