Show registered AT COUNTY jail thos keel and A Hambri cli the new arrivals former charged with adultery and latter with assisting prisoners to escape thomas keel of emery a man past 30 years old and one who was raised there is now incarcerated in the coun ty jail awaiting the next term of the district court keel is charged with adultery the respondent in the case being his wife a sister mrs mary flan igan the latter is a complaining wit ness she at first charged keel with having raped her on july ath last in a coal mine up muddy creek in which keel was mining coal an in tion of the matter by county attorney dickson and sheriff beebe convinced the officers that it was more than doubtful of a conviction on such an indictment and they found the deafen dant willing to plead guilty to the charge of adultery on saturday last keel was taken before justice burr of emery and entered a plea of guilty to the lesser crime mrs flaagan and mrs keel are the daughters of the late john dalton of casper both of their parents being dead the Flan igans leave been living at washington county for some years past they have four small children n may last they came to emery to vis it with mr and mrs keel and have lived with them up to a very short while ago the defendant states that it was owing to a hint that he was tired of feeding them gratis any longer that he action was brought against him by mrs flaagan mrs keel was very much worked up over the action instituted by her sister and wanted the officers to prosecute mrs flanigan on the same charge as ahat brought against her husband the keels have two babies and all the parties connected with the affair are in in dicent circumstances keel s bonds were fixed at 1800 and so far he has been unable to secure bondsmen alexander hambrick of Cast ledale was placed under arrest on wednesday 01 a complaint charging him with assist ing frank van meter and edward keller to saw their way out of the county jail a couple of weeks ago by furnishing them the saws by which they effected ther temporary escape the first hint of hambrick s alleged culpability came in i letter to van meter from his father living in chicago in which the father made mention of having sent 20 to hamback the letter was opened by marshal frandsen and the information turned over to county attorney dickson and sheriff beebe these officers at once got busy hambrick denies having received any money from the elder van meter but the younger van meter states that the money was sent to him in july before he obtained the 99 sent by his father direct to him a few weeks later it is stated that hambrick had a talk with the prisoners and took a letter from them to mail to the chicago van meter asking that 20 be sent in the care of hamback to aid the boys |