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Show County Jailers Seize Pistol And Thwart Plot for Break Suspect Nabbed in Attempted Arms Smuggling to 'Desperate Men A possible armed county jail break attempt was thwarted Monday Mon-day by alert action of two night jailers. As result, a man who applied at the jail for lodging was held for carrying concealed weapons and authorities were keeping close watch over inmates. EvenU began Sunday at 11:30 p. m. when F. Meadow, 23, Globe, Ariz., appeared at the jail and asked for a night's lodging. Lodgers are Increasing In-creasing in number as cold weather advances. Night Jailers Arch Hoffman and Joseph E. Nelson, gsve Meadow a customary sesrch snd discovered six shells in his pockets for a .41 caliber Derringer - a small, wicked - weapon which can be concealed in the palm of the hand. . Asked where the weapon was. Meadow aasertedly replied he bad no idea, that ho bad discarded the revolver several months sgo and was "just Carrying these bullets around with me." But the two officers weren't sat-j isfied. They stripped Meadow to the skin and found the Derringer, tied to his body beneath bis cloth-1 cloth-1 ins I With 111 prisoners In th jail 48 of them for federal offenses and meny of th inmates classed as j -desperate men" authorities said 'they are exercising extreme precautions precau-tions to forestall "possible trouble.", |