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Show JAILER IS HIMSELF LOCKED IN BASTILE Friend of Prisoner TbtU j Helps Friend Out of Jail; Both Surrender. Special to The Tritune. TOOELE. Sept. 7. Prank Green. aged 21 year?, was arraigned in tbe city court here this afternoon on a j charge of assault with a deadly weapon, j pleaded not guilty, and Ml admitted to bail in tbe sum of $750. which he furnished. George M-Laws. aged about I 91 ..u-j-.i :i4.. ... .1 r : 1 1 1 Uj , . , . . . mj Tonrf ui Jan- j breaking and was fined $15. Both men ba4 been diligently sought by the shr-iff'g shr-iff'g office of Tooele county and the police department of Tooele "itv sine : about 2 o'clock this raorniug. Late in , the afternoon they came down from the I hills, gave themselves up and were j placed in jail. Deputy Marshal A. G. Shields, who was a leader in the hunt for the youths wanted: had a strong incentive, aside ; from bi official obligation, for he I knows now how it feels to be a pris-I pris-I oner in the jail where be had locked j up one of tbe men he was seeking. Shortly before midnight Monda v ! Shields arrested Mi-Laws, who was al-I al-I leged to be intoxicated, on a charge of I disturbing thf peace, and placed him ! in the city jail. Green was with Mo I Laws at the time he was placed under arrest. Green protested at the, time to no avail against the arrest of his friend. 1 The marshal went on about his duties. Tt was only a little while after mid-! mid-! night, as Shields was leaving the city ! hall by the front door, that Green shoved a revolver in front of his fare, forced him to put up his hands, be I disarmed, walk to the city jail rind un-loek un-loek the door of the cell in which Mc j Laws was confined. Both men, then I free, locked Shields in the corridor of i the front jail, which opens off the cor-j cor-j ridor f the city jail, and ran off in tbe ! darkness. . Shields smashed a chair which was ; in the corridor and using a heavy round I as a crowbar managed, after ten min-I min-I utes of hard work, to pry off the lock j of the door. For a while he tried alone : to find Green and McLaws, who had not 1 gone to their homes. Then he roused 1 other officers and began the search, I which continued until Green' and Mis-I Mis-I Laws came in and gave themselves up. |