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Show ATTEMPTED JAIL BREAK IS FOILED Ed. Cook and Chas. Alexander, the two men charged with grand larceny and recently arrested and placed in the county jail at Beaver, tried to break jail. It will be remembered that the officers endeavored to cause Ed. Cook to start the New Year right for he was arrested on New Year's Day by Officers Baxter and Hedges in Milford. Sheriffs Fotheringham of Beaver and Froyd of Iron county went to Salt Lake City and there arrested Alexander a few days later. The efforts of the officers to get the men started right seems to be a dismal dis-mal failure so far as any voluntary action of the men is concerned. They seem to be determined to add to the criminal charges to be placed against them. The morning after Alexander was placed in jail with his pal the former form-er was to be taken to Parowan to there answer a criminal charge. When the officers went to the jail to get him they discovered a brown paper pa-per spread against the wall of the jail which aroused their suspicion. Removing the paper they found that a hole large enough to allow the body of a man to get through had been almost dug through the wall. Evidently the men finding they could not complete the work before time for the arrival of the officers had thus covered up their work and placing the debris in a sack hid it in the woodpile. The timely arrival of the officers was all that prevented a jail delivery. Clark was immediately brought to Milford and arraigned and Alexander Alex-ander taken to Parowan for the same purpose. Cook pled not guilty to the charge of "assault with a deadly weapon" and in "resisting Officer Baxter," and his bond was fixed at $5,000 in each case. He was returned return-ed to Beaver with an Oregon boot on one leg and locked in a steel cell to await his hearing before Judge Nichols next Tuesday. Sheriff Fotheringham got his man. With Sheriff Froyd of Iron county the Sheriff of Beaver county went to Salt Lake City last week after he, with the aid of the Milford officers, had landed Ed. Clark in jail. Charles Alexander was the man they wanted. Alexander and Clark were wanted on serious charges. Clark is the man who tried to hold up Marshal Baxter Bax-ter when the latter tried to place him under arrest. Clark would probably have succeeded had not Officer Allen Hedges appeared at the critical moment and held up Clark instead. Following Is the account of the arrest in Salt Lake City as given by the Herald-Republican of Monday: Mon-day: "Four days' sleuthing by two Utah sheriffs In Salt Lake resulted in the arrest on the street - yesterday of Charles Alexander, believed to be the leader of a gang which was recently re-cently foiled ina $G000 robbery, and who is wanted in two counties on grand larceny charges. He was arrested ar-rested in front of 347 W. Fourth South street by A. L. Fotheringham of Beaver county. Sheriff Joseph S. Froyd of Iron county and Deputy Sheriffs Charles E. Wood and Joseph Turnbull of Salt Lake county. "The search for Alexander began a week ago after several men had penetrated some sixty miles from a railroad, cut down $6000 worth of copper wire owned by a power company com-pany operating in Beaver and Iron counties, and shipped the loot to Salt Lake." a |