Show A GENUINE SENSATION A penitentiary BIRD TRUSS TO ESCAPE but bardea fealt gels ike drop on birj at p m thursday when the prisoners of the penitentiary were being locked upa in their cells for the night there was consternation among the guards at discovering that there was oae man short prompt investigation showed that wm A hibbard was the bising party ho had beba in the penitentiary yard at noon and no ono had any idea of what had become of him it was impossible for him to have scaled the wall without being seen by the ever vigilant guards and as to going out in his prison garb that was beyond question the interior of the prison was thoroughly searched but hibbard was not there that ho was outside there was no doubt so efforts put forth to secure his recapture and a reward of was offered by marshall byor for his arrest the query was bow did he manage to get beyond the prison walls T warden pratt thought there was a bare possibility lity that he had passed out with the visitors of whom there were a few yesterday and further investigation shows almost beyond doubt that that theory was correct he had secured in some way a suit of clothes clot hns and as the turnkey did not know him had joined the visitors unobserved in the dining room aad deliberately walked out of the prison gates iia the very presence of the officers it seems incredible that such a scheme could be worked but there is little doubt it was as hibbard is gono and his prison clothing is left behind from information obtained priday it is likely he has headed for idaho A man answering his personal description boarded the train for ogden thursday at the junction city he purchased a ticket for pocatello Poe atello idaho he was seen by sheriff and others who were attracted by his peculiar ap pe aranco winch exactly fits that of hibbard he had on a black stiff hat light overcoat overa oat too large for him and pants of a pepper and salt color ahen he came up to the station he limped a little but on walking away his lameness had disappeared instead of getting into a passenger coach he boarded the ca booso there he was noticed by sheriff belnap who was looking for the forger raymond arrested last night in this city the sheriff saw that it was not raymond and knowing nothing of hibbard let him go subsequent inquiry elicited the tho stranger instead of continuing his journey to pocatello jumped from the train shortly before it reached logan hibbard was sentenced in october last to five years for highway robbery his victim being E Y taylor of this city ha professed to have come t utah as a tramp from durango colorado it is not likely that he caa long keep out of the hands of the corb erom sunday mornings salt lake herald wo elip the following particulars of hibbard s capture the disappearance of hibbard at tho penitentiary the other day is only outdone in mystery by his appearance pe arance saturday night and his daring attempt to escape by scaling the walls which enclose th court at about midnight as guard was patrolling the east wall he was suddenly tripped up and narrowly escaped being thrown to the ground twenty feet below As soon as he could pick himself up ho looked about him and discovered that a rope ladder had been thrown over the wall from the inside and it was on this that he had tripped he looked all around but could see no one and there was nothing to indicate whether the ladder had been used or was yet to be used ho quickly gave the alarm to the other guards and warden pratt was rung up he immediately threw out his entire guard and stationing part of thorn inside tho wall he took the wall himself with the others and begab an investigation going to tho point where tha ladder was discovered just back of the hospital ho saw a man creeping along close to the wall of the building mr got the drop on the man and called to him stop or ill shoot tho fellow stood still under the soothing influence of the wardens gun the inside guard arrived upon the scene and secured him at first the officer had no idea of who tho fellow was but when tho warden went dowa into tho yard to look at his bird he found it to bo none other than william Hibbard tho fellow who was missed at thursday evening s count up and who was supposed to have walked out of the yard with some visitors the warden immediately began to ply hibbard with questions as to where he had been hiding who had beba assisting him etc but ho re fused to say a word mr pratt has a little friend in the ahapa of a sweat box which has proven very successful in drawing out bashful men in tha past and a judicious application of this and other tricks of the prison craft will prove successful in this smooth young man the idea of hiding and giving the impression that he had escaped beem to havo boea an original one with hibbard but it did not prove success ail the warden was never quite to tho idea that hibbard hafid passed the and has made frequent and pi listen fc searches of the premises finding these unsuccessful he doubled the guard both thursday and friday nights last saturday night however he returned to the single guard and satisfied himself with the admonition to keep an unusual strict watch and patrol tho walls every few minutes had hibbard been given ten minutes more he would have been a free man hibbard was very hungry when caught and said he had almost frozen to death he was in citizens clothes but thesa could be identified last night his scaling tackle was almost perfect out of pieces of ropo that had been allowed some of the prisoners tor making bridles he had constructed a rope ladder to one end of this were tied a couple of boards thai he had picked up in the yard fastened to the boards were some hooks made from wiro and intended to grapple the wall the arrangement was per fact he had thrown the end with the tackle on it over the wall and had stuck so hard as to prove a bad mesh for the guards feet those who have ever been on the walls will remember that there is a four foot fence on the inside edge of the wall but no railing whatever on the out aide and it is thus that guard V right came near falling to the ground on the outside when ho tripped it was 1 sunday loraing when the excitement had subsided and things were running on as usual and it was deemed useless to attempt to further unravel tho mystery at that hour warden pratt is confident that hibbard had assistance from the outside and he will do all in his power to bring the matter to light it is just possible that the was something in that impression that hibbard had some communication with the outside world oa thursday last visitors day it is just possible that citizens clothes were carried to him then and it is also possible that the man whom tha officers are now looking for in the north and who answered EO well to hibberds hibbards Hib bards description was a decoy to lead the officers off the track however this may be hibbard has laid a deep plan and more developments maybe expected any 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