| Show jail delivery at blackfoot BLACKFOOT idaho june about 7 last evening it was discovered that five of the prisoners coa confined fined in the county jail here had tamed gained their liberty by bv holding up the auard As near as the facts can be ascertained it occurred as follows the wife of one on nickerson confined for horse st paling was permitted to vi visit sit him nickerson being brought into the jailers office for that purpose while they were in conversation sitting near each other the one guard enard present leaned over fass chair to spit and on OB looking up discovered that nickerson had him covered with a gun which is supposed to have been secreted in his cifes or babas clothing he ordered the guard at the point of the gunto go downstairs down stairs unlock the door leading to the cells and step in where williams the cari car 1 boo murderer under sentence of death was waiting to receive the guard aara was immediately placed inabel in a cell 11 and locked locke dup up the prisoners we were rethen then released and proceeding upstairs appropriated all the arms in the jailors jailers jai lors office and taking possession of the court house each guard and two citizens who happened to be in were taken down stairs and locked up among the citizens who came was C bunting Bunt lag jr of this city who was immediately confronted by a gun in the he hands ot williams and taken abdow and locked up p with the balance about four hours after the first guard was captured the prisoners all made a bold dash for liber liberty tv three horses having been fur dished oy ny a brother of one of the prisoners which williams nickerson and harrington the latter two horse hors e thieves from the teton country mounted and started off in a northeasterly direction woods the pocatello wife murderer and hughes a horse thief from beaver on foot toward the indian reservation woods was overtaken and recaptured about abou tone one mile south of town all the rest are still at large but all are being hatli hotly pursued by a posse from eagle roe aock the wile wife of nickerson and his brother were immediately locked up as accomplices and are now having their preliminary examination before judge shoemaker ogden herald |
