Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 24 | Searching for Men who Aided Telfer

10 AIDED TELFER Federal Sleuths Unearth Evidence on Escapes From Guardhouse. Evidence unearthed in the search for GUlman R. Tclfer and his two companions, com-panions, who escaped from the Fort Douglas guardhouse,, indicates that the men had some outside aid in getting away from the post after they sawed their way through the bars of tho prison. As ret no trace of the escaped soldiers sol-diers has been secured, but no stone is being left unturned in the effort to recapture them. . It is believed by the authorities that it is only a matter of a little time when all three of them will be back in custody. In fhe meantime mean-time an effort is being made to trace the person or persons who arc believed to have aided the prisoners to get away after they got out of the guardhouse. It has been learned that just ahout the time the men got out of the prison a soldier was observed in the undergrowth under-growth back of the post, apparently changing his clothes. It is believed that Telfer or one of the others, W. E. Craig or August Schenkel, was the man seen, and that he was changing his suit of prison garb for civilian clothing, which would enable him to get away without arousing suspicion, and without attracting attention when seen on the streets. No trace was found in the weeds of the prison suit which Telfer was wearing wear-ing when he left the guardhouse, but it is considered likely that after changing chang-ing his clothes he carried his prison garb with him to some other place and effectively disposed of it. Because of the fact that Telfer is an important witness against three civilians ci-vilians who are under federal, charges in connection with his desertion from the guard company at Fort Douglas and tor the sale of liquor to soldiers, it is considered highly probable that persons per-sons on the outside may have been in-, terestcd in effecting the prisoner's escape es-cape and aided him to the extent of caching a suit of civilian clothir- in the weeds back of the post or possibly smuggling a saw to the prisoners in the guardhouse. It is thought possible that Telfer and his companions may be hiding in the hills or may be cached away some place in the city, and a thorough search is being made. Descriptions of the missing men have been sent out in every ev-ery direction, and all officers and persons per-sons are called upon to keep a close watch for the escaped soldiers.