Show NEARLY SAWS HIS HS WAY VAY V A Y TO LIBERTY Negro Ross on Point of Escaping Escaping Escaping ing From County Jail Jail DISCOVERED BY SHERIFF I Hl timid fad Second lIar Almost Severed S Sn Same Saimie IW 11 Man n ii Shot hut by Imy Ir Sonic Some cI Weeks eeLs go 0 A daring attempt to Ireal break Jail jai was wn male made short shortly after aftem- 3 o'clock yesterday yester yester- lay day mO morning b by Will l Ross floss fos colored who Is In confinement nt at the county Jail awaiting trial upon char charges ps of or burglary Ho Etc had bad hac nearly sawed through h the bars when the time of or orthe the lie sawing attracted the UH at attention of el Sheriff C C. C Frank 1111 Emery Emer who un Jailer Lai lan Larsen sen n Th These jo two went to the cell of or Ross Hoss and discovered Ered clfo his act He vas wa-s a. at nt once taken to the tl eon dungeon where he hl will wi remain II pending pend ing an In Investigation of the tho a affair al' al Sheriff Em Emery was awakened by liv a sl slight ht noise m made macic e by y the sawing of the bars lie lt suspected the real cal nature nature na na- mia mia- ture lure of or the thC cause an and went with wih Jailer I Larsen Laisen to th the Ie C CA J of or nO Ross Q where thC they found him on nn his cot as If I soun sound asleep p. p They comman commanded l hIm lUm to get getup get getup up UI and ant on ml In Investigation found round that hint one bar bam haul had been completely sawed swed off niT or and the second on one was well wel under a way Had this been removed there would hay have have been ample ampie room for the theman theman tlC man to have hav e escaped capel The bars were saved pawed with wih the finest 1 saws 8 1 that have hav ever ver ben tn seen een In Iii this his city Th The Joun sound of the ibe n wing was WOM deadened by rags rag and oi oil Ross Hess will wl now no nobe be be kept In tn Solitary golta Molt Soli gol- gol ta tary confinement until he ills where he lie pro procured th the saws Im 9 I Not I Ills Ils I Is P t t At Attempt l Ross 1 is regarded as ns one of ot the time wor l t criminals that ha has ever been heen In iii 11 this tills 1 city It This I Is not Oct his hiM first attempt to I break from While away awny custody hl he was confined In tile the cit city Jail ja before hi hl his preliminary hearing hearing he hE slipped ll the Jailer and went out with wih the tho chain Eang gang While hiI h he was out he made mudo a break for Cor liberty and anil was a stopped by bya a bullet bulet from the gun of or J. J D D. Brown which took effect In his hip 1111 On account account account ac ac- count of this thiM Injury It I was thought that he hc would woul not ant attempt to get gt away awny again and for fOl that reason rason was not nol COnfuted confined In a n at the thc Jail but butIn butIn In tim an nn ordinary cage ag the bars barR of or which h hor or are former form of oC softer steel tel than those thun-so In tIn the on Oil 01 Pour Counts on mm t Tho The charges upon which Ross floss 1 Is lucid held to the tho district court embrace four foum- attempts at hUla burglary On 01 the time nl night ht of ut December r 17 Ii h he committed l one and ond on the time succeeding night three In lii order ordet to escape from the last of or these the three stores he Ime hI jumped from a window win win- dow dew causing him to be bc quite sly severely II E cut By means of a bloody trail trai h hwa he wa WI tracked to hs hIs Ils h home I Upon am rl ln riving at nt his home hom the nIh that he hC ha had n Mown They then Own went i to the Oe Oregon ol Short Shott Line depot and arrived there theme Just as ns he lw was wn about to board hoard a northbound train |