Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-10 | Page 24 | Prisoner Tries to Escape Jail

PRISONER TIES TO' ESCAPE JSIL Detected While Loosening Bricks About Window With Broom. It. C. Cart wright. 2:i years of age. was cought yesterday afternoon in an effort to brerk out of the county jail. He is serving six months for petty larceny, with sentence terminating on January 2?.. With the handle of a broom. Cart-wright Cart-wright undertook to dislodge biks at the casement of a window to permit him to crawl by Hie bars. His operations were concealed under apparent industry in washing widows, which are inside t lie bars and so pivoted that both sides' can be washed from the inside. He succeeded in loosening three bricks, but his actions were twice betrayed in the process. Jailers Joseph Kaleign and George H. Vine had become suspiejous of t i io man's actions and were s-ecretiy watching 'him from a distance within th iaii when Mrs. Cor! ess. wife of Sheriff John S Corless. called up from the sheriffs residence, resi-dence, immediately in front of the pin with the information that brick dost was sifting down from one of the windows' the one where Cartwrigh; was at woik L'pou gaining this information the jailers, jail-ers, interrupted Cartwrigiit and found that lie had made su ffieient progress to j. dence his purpose. Ho and three orher men who lia'd been allowed in tne cor- ridor to do housecieaning wre put i: solitary confinement until 0 o'-'lo-k' la -si 1 night, when Canwrlgt confessed and ex- : onerate:! the or hers, dec Luang tha t they did not know what he was trying to do ' T:i"-y were at work washing" the st.-i i work of the c-lls at some dis;;mce (, the winnow through tci:. iam of w'ri.'h I Cartwright endeavored to dig his wav t0 i liberty.