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Show JAIL BREAK IS f ATTEMPTED BY THREE I Yesterday afternoon inmates of the counl Jail attempted to make their escape by breaking the heavy steel wire netting on the Inside of the iron-barred iron-barred window on the north side of Jj the west series of cells, and 6usp!- M cion rests on F, B Lewis, chargeil -H with white slavery, and Lewis Bry. ant. held for interfering with United J Stales mall, both negroer.. and Harry Donely, white, charged with grand lar- j Last evening Lewis. the white 1 , slaver, sent a note to the night jailer, I L Deputy Slseriff Walter Richey. telling him that some one had been trying I to saw through the north window of j the county Jail, at the west end A J m hurried examination was made and It 1 9 was learned that the heay wire screen encompassing the Inner part I of the Iron window had been broken loose from the sill from the top downward down-ward a number of inches. The screen waB so arranged that It appeared to bare heen broken from the outside It M was soon discovered, however, that the wire had been broken from the Inside In-side and the instrument with which It was done was found in the west cell Whoever did th "h broke a heavy piece of Iron, which had been used "0 support the steam pipes, from Its fastenings and. by sharpens the bar. had given it such an edge that It served not only as a lever by which a pry loose the wlr netting, but also as a saw, ro cut if Marks on tho "J woodwork of the window were plainly visible on the inside. leaving no question In the minds -of the officers that the work had been done from I the corridor of the west tier of cells. However it was concluded that .there might possibly be confederates outside and Officer Hadlork remained In hiding outside the jail, near the 4 winnow, aurinji; me uigui wnn a view to apprehendng anyone who might I happen along This raorninc when Sheriff DeVlne ; rame to the Jail he was advised of 1 the attempted delivery. Partial con-j con-j fesslons hae been made by the three ' men In question and It is expected I that they will tell the entire story j during the day It is thought that Lewis got "crtJ : feet before the Job of sawing through j the screen was completed and real- i I izing that it would be next to impos- ! sible to saw through the heavy Iron I bars on the outside of the window be fore discovery decided that the safer j ' plan was to claim somone from out- j j side was trying to help in a Jail break. i The iron bars to the window were 1-sawed 1-sawed partially in two a number of years ago by jailbirds and have never been replaced, and it is said by the sheriff that had the work of getting I through the w Ire screen yesterday been started early in the evening, the bars might have been severd with the heavy piece of iron taken from the ; seam pipes, leaving a hole large enough to permit a man to crawl 1 ' through Yesterday. being Sunday, wi'ii M ; many visitors at the Jail, to meet the men Incarcerated, the Inmates were I given more freedom in the main corri- .1 dors The doors leadln? to the cor-I cor-I ridor of the west cells were left op5. these cells having not been used since ' McSw iggin and Martin were t.'ken from them, so it was an easy matte: 1 I for the two negroes and Donely to en- ter the place and begin work on the screen Young ugust Bodh. charged with ,U attempted murder, also had 'he free- H I dom of the corridors during the day, but the officers do not think he was j implicated in the attempted Jail break. 00 |