Show f ETS SAWED I IN EfFORT AT ESCAPE empt to Release Seven inmates of Weber County gastile Bastile Fails When Near Success RINGLEADER I FORCED TO CONFESS Is Kept Posted at Boor Door to Give Warning While Cutting Is Going On in Tank J I fr OGDEN DEN March 18 A A plot to es- es from the county Jail which might av v f f involved the striking down dowl of a adler an n or the breaking through of oC a al J l wall Ick-wall allowing seven men free- free I revealed here today In a re- re by Sheriff R. R D. D the questioning of a prisoner dt the grilling of one man R. R E. E air ahr r alleged to be the ringleader Ine in e tte break for liberty the ven yen men are now occupying sepa- sepa tel cells according to information re retried re- re tried ned by the sheriff and the other who was wa-s questioned planned Ithe lithe release of the seven after atter hackwith hack- hack with a saw at the gate of the ank The tank forms that part t the prison which takes in the cor- cor outside of the tho separate cells celIs iren men with the other prison prison- I allowed freedom in the tank their cells were not locked If according to the sheriff told my that ho he carried carded the hacksaw to it In hi his 4 clothes He is re ref restarted re- re started as having confessed to helping Is f saw saw the rivets from the gate of the tank Lank Nine rivets had been sawed Thursday afternoon until Fr- Fr The suspicions of the her sher- aroused Friday and he called I Sfa ija Ia prisoner who told him of the ans ns t Ei E LOO LOOKOUT OUT f c f v t. t tj cord g to t. the prisoner one o othe the rif II l prisoner was lS s constantly stationed d ar th the door of the prison for the rp j advising ad the others of the I pr of a deputy epu y sheriff Sawing uld ouId cease if he turned his head lich ch was to indicate the approach nan jan officer When the officer deI de- de fated d the sawing would be resumed in his statement to the sheriff I reported to have said that it was ped to saw off oU all of the sixteen I 4 ets by tonight The prisoners then I I I posed to wait walt until Sunday and call I LaIthe jilt he jailer under a pretext TheP The P I iler they believed would be th th only I f Icer on duty then Once inside the prisoners proposed to knock Ilm on the head and take his keys V pen n the main door to the prison and andS S cape ape If this plan was not carried I tit was proposed to attempt to eak through the wall once the terri tern the gate of the tank had I hose Those who are alleged to have aided I hr in his attempt for freedom are areas ported as Mike and Mike MUte I held on a charge of stealing bickens ickens at Pleasant View Joe Sollis dj d Hernandez convicted of grand grandI r eny l rank Frank Royes and Joe ajar ajar- ar- ar ne nei awaiting awaiting- trial on a charge of I J I Idi As a a. result of the suspicion of the coupled with the statements 11 g I he Unnamed prisoner and plot was foiled and all hamen thanen a are now occupying ing separate I Ir r us I E ED BEFORE The tank was awed open by prison r s in 1920 The prisoners were C caught were leaving lea vi ng that tha t part of th the e pUran l returned to their cells celis It was und necessary to put in a p conFInIng con- con FInIng sixteen rivets It was as this t upon which and the other r ners are alleged to have labored To 10 avoid detection ed soap in the rivet holes immedi- immedi fely after the sawing process The erf now proposes to have the patch patcha I gain a n repaired and to replace the wed iwed off rivets with hardened steel Vets ets the alleged ringleader cameI came tor for notoriety a few weeks ago when I ls alleged to have the maner manof man- man er of the Ogden Canyon sanitarium I tithe point of a gun He is said to tove towe Ave we ve covered f the tho manager while a aIrl irli Irl rifled thE tho cash register Il as conveyed s to the sanitarium by br V t The J. J ilO chauffeur said that t forced to drive to the 3 and later to Salt Lake at point of a gun was arrested Lake and returned to Ogden a aHw a. a Hw hours later The girl said that the unwilling accomplice of ta hr and that she was forced to com com- robbery under fear that shoot her was awaiting p tal when he is alleged to have lunched on the venture to free him- him I Wand six elx Inmates at the tho prison w oze Sleuths age Denver Raid DENVER Colo Cola March 18 United ess Eighty three arrests and 1000 f of liquor comprised the haul ade e. e by a special force torce of sove seventy seventy- tyree ty- ty ree federal officers who h swooped wn simultaneously on five fifty here yesterday Hotels room room- houses and pool halls were raided was wa as Denver's biggest booze raid lice slice Probe i r. r ui cide ide Setting STON Ma 1 March h 18 The 18 The setting p Jork r the suicide by poison of ot Pauline Clark was a subject of ot police Cl today The authorities had Continued on page 3 lif RIVETS SA VIED Continued from page 1 established they said that the young woman who as a model a few years ago was declared by sculptors to be al almost almost almost al- al most perfect In form ended her life while drinking with a group of friends in her apartment These friends In Included Included In- In eluded Bayard Wharton of Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia a student and an athlete at Haryard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard yard college and Otto Halder Haider Larsen of Norway a student at nt Massachusetts l Institute of Technology Larsen has disappeared As Pauline Herrick her engagement to James Davis a Harvard student was announced in 1913 But it was Lieutenant Commander William Thomas of the navy that she married She was divorced from him a year ago Wharton said Miss l Clark Invited her I friends to the party of Wednesday night She had been melancholy since her divorce and in financial ties Wharton said she showed him two bottles one of which she said contained contained con con- tamed perfume The other she did not describe It was vas early Thursday Thur day moaning mo ning when the young woman sitting with Wharton and Larsen while they munched munched- sandwiches and drank collapsed col collapsed col- col ol- ol lapsed the former said She made madeno no remarks indicating her intention to take her life Ufe he added and so far as known died without making a st state state- te- te ment Other members of the party who had been questioned by the police were Robert Christie described as a a. Western Western West- West ern era business man Joseph Tory of Worcester and Miss 1 Annie also of Worcester |