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Show Dug Their Way Out. WINTERSET, Iowa, April 16. C, O. Davis, confined in the county jail charged with wrecking a bank of 1 Peru of which he was cashier, and Ed Streeter, an alleged harness thief, escaped Tuesday night by tunneling tunnel-ing under the jail. Two other prisoners, an alleged tyoot legger and a hog thief, refused to eacape. The prisoners had been digging the tunnel ever since Easter Sunday. The dirt was concealed by throwing it on top of a cage. The tunnel is 36 feet in length and at one point is 14 feet under ground. , Davis, it is charged, tobbed the Peru bank of $15,000 last July. He was caught in November at Avoca, N. Y., where he was running a bank under the name of Douglas. Parties are scouring the country for them. The sheriff offers a reward of $100 for their capture. |