Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-07 | Page 3 | Jail Delivery Effort Foiled

I JAIL DELIVERY EFFORT FOILED Five prisoners of the Salt Lake county jail were in solitary confinement confine confine- confine I ment meat Saturday named as ringleaders ers m in iI iIan an attempted jailbreak that vas was foiled late Friday afternoon i ivas The five are arc Gilbert OConnor O'Connor 20 and Hugh Osborne 26 awaiting sentence sea sen sen-I sen tence on second degree burglary I convictions and nd Don McClure 21 i William Raymond 19 19 and Henr Henry Benner 20 O held by the federal government government gov gov- for alleged violations of the tho Dyer act J. J q O Nilson assistant jailer discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered th the attempted attempt d break while making his rou rounds ds A prisoner shouted a warning and Mr Nilson found a group of of about 15 in the north tier on the first floor He found the steel wall valI In the shower room had been Deen cut half halt way through with chisels obtained from froman an unknown source Mr Nilson stood guard while Michael Mauss jailer and other officers rounded up th the ringleaders If the prisoners had cut through the he shower room they still would have lave had to make malee an opening in inho inthe inthe the ho exterior wall of brick The steel cutting apparently was done dono under cover of noise by workers work work- ers era in the nearby y boiler room