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Show DARING PLAN TO BREAK JAIL Salt Lake, Jan. 1. Matt Oas, awaiting await-ing trial in the district court on the charge of assault with Intent to commit com-mit murder, evolved a plan by which he hoped to escape from the county jail. Tho refusal of a friend to participate par-ticipate In the attempt to smuggle hack-saws into tho jail, however, has caused his plans to go awry. Oas Is charged with assaulting Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Fred Butler, with intent to commit com-mit murder. Thero also is a charge of burglary pending against him, which will be passed it it Is deemed necessary. Oas is considered to bo a desperate desper-ate man and his record bears out the presumption. Had he secured tho much-coveted saws, there is little room for doubt that a carefully-planned jail break would have been attempted. at-tempted. As to whether or not tho break would have been successful Is n matter of speculation, as the Salt Lake county jail is one of the safest in tho country, but that a tragedy might have ensued there Is no room for doubt Trusting upon friendship, Oas in some manner caused a letter to be smuggled from tho county jail, appealing ap-pealing to the friend to secrete two No. 14 Diamond hack-saws in the back of a book and have the book delivered to a fellow prisoner, Arthur Ar-thur Earl, who Is awaiting trial on a charge of burglary In the second degree. The young man to whom the letter was addressed was greatly perturbed upon the receipt of the missive, and at once turned the communication over to his employer. Accompanied by Raymond Smith and Thomas Hlckey, both of whom are awaiting trial on charges of burglary bur-glary In the second degree, Oas engaged en-gaged In a sensational revolver duel, i in which forty shots were fired, with three railroad special agents and two deputy sheriffs, following a daring dar-ing box car robbery on tho early morning of November 14. As a rosult of the duel two were younded. A bullet nipped off one of Smith's thumbs, and the fourth box car robber, who escaped, was Btruck by a bullet Oas, Smith and Hlckey were arrested. |