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Show WOMEN ESCAPE FROM CITY PRISON Mabel Wilson, serving a 25-days sentence for vagrancy, and Mrs Mary MoGlll. serving a 120-dav sentence for I lewd conduct, escaped from the women wom-en s ward on the second floor of the city Jail last night, shortly before ! midnight John McGII), the husband of one of i no women, made his get-a-wav a week ago but tho police did not make tho fact public. It Is known that McGIII Is working in "Bills" restaurant restau-rant In Salt lko and it Is almost certln that his wife will go to him. The police have expressed no desire to recapture them. The two women escaped from the ward by sliding down a rope which had been stored on the roof of the tier of cells. The door to the corridor corri-dor had been opened bv inserting a who through the aperture in th.- lever lev-er box and lifting up the lock, which had been plate, through the evo of tho steel bar but not locked Jailer Hagbert Anderson made the rouftQl of the building before turning over his post to Dc8k Sergeant Johnson John-son who went on duty at 11 o'clock Before leaving his post, Mr. Anderson Ander-son took up a powder left bv the city physician for Mabel Wilson and at that time all was well in the women's ! ward. About midnight. Detective Tom Burke auu L. Brown, tho patrol driver, driv-er, came Into the station and talked with Johnson for a few minutes When they left they ran into a dan-Ellng dan-Ellng ro.e reaching from a window on the west side to the steps In front of the station They went back at once and an Investigation revealed the fact that the two women prisoners prison-ers had escaped. A long rope was found tied to the steel bars of the cag, and a window oiion at th top showed the police how the escape was made. The two women owe their escape in a way to Colonel Roosevelt, for the rope by which they descended to the gTound wan from a coll that was used to keep baeU the crowd when Roosevelt was here last fall. It had been stored for safekeeping on the roof of the steel cells |