Show HOKUM tuesday evening about 83 00 a tramp appeared at the home of J S hull fruit and asked for something to cat lie he looked like a suspicious character so sir air ifill phoned marshal valentine who went down the street and met the fellow taking him into custody at the city hall he was searched the officers finding chips on the clearfield canning company and in cash which they relieved him of and locked him up tor for the night sheriff olsen telephoned the clearfield de alfield canning co and was informed that they had lost some canned goods through theft but that the chips were useless and they lid did not care to prosecute the fellow it was decided to hold him through the night however ho weier and the man was permitted to remain in jail As marshal valentine opened the residence door at the jail to reach tile the key to the yard gate the fellow said that it if he be li bad d so desired he co could lid have ran around the corner of the building and escaped to which the marshal replied that there would have been some lively shooting had he tried it with the possible result that he ile might have got his skin punctured the tramp said that he had lone done the same tiling thing many times before and never liever got shot so was not much aar afraid aid but because there could be no charge brought against him he did not care to make auy any attempt to escape ile he was evidently a bad man marshal valentine put the man mail in ill tile the drunk house in company i with etli another tramp supplied them with a bucket of coal locked the door and left them but the wily nily bum lid did not propose to take his medicine peaceably ile he took the broken coal shovel and began digging out the brick of oe the wall next nest to the window casing and in a very little while had succeeded in removing enough ellough brick to make a hole large enough for him to crawl out ile he then climbed on top of the ash pile in the south east corner of the jail yard which made it possible for him to just reach the top of the wall with outstretched arms and it was only the work of a few mi minutes to climb over and make its his escape the follow then went nent over ta to the city hall where he had previously sly been searched and relieved of his bis belongings aryed the lock to pieces and broke a panel out of the door into the marshals room which he entered and got ills his money cannery chips and marshal valentines gun and fifty rounds of if ammunition this all happened between eleven and twelve as the fellow tramp in the drunk house climbed through the boh in tile aall when ari s pal fal it had id made ills his escape looked at the time on tile the clock tower endeavored to rouse the occupants of the jail residence then crawled back and went to sleep it was 1215 when night light watchman L W V burt discovered the burglary of the marshals office and lie he telephoned Alar marshal valentine who had just gone to bed As the marshal was leaving his home ionic lie he heard several shots near the craghead ice pond and lie he made a run for forest street arriving at the depot just a few minutes after the fellow got there aget getting tills this information from mr A N olsen who was waiting for the night train coith the marshal looked through the yards but could find no trace of the fellow then came up town and made an invest investigation leation in company with officer curt burt they had no idea that the man jailed had escaped but thought it must have been ills his pal as they had been advised the day before to be on tile the lookout for a couple of men so when they went over to the jail and found the hole in the wall they were some astonished but tb the man got away on the butte train and a telegram was promptly dispatched to the officers at pocatello to nab him which they did and sheriff olsen benj went up last night to get him when morning dawned it was found that someone presumably the same person had broken 1 nto into kidneys Gid blacksmith shop and s stolen to en some money the implement used in breaking 9 in the door of the marshals office wa was s a heavy seal real which aich had been discarded and was lying lit in the hall marshat marshal valentine is going to work for the erection of a cement reinforced city jail and the thoughts of having fifty holes through ills his body makes him feel kinda glad that he be find the villian at the depot |