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Show I ATlSDEIS I PART III HOLDUP Salt Lake Prisoner Says He Was in His Rooms on Day of Thomas Robbery fl Denial that he participated In the robbery of the tth Thomas Jewelry story hero November 2". when Phll-lip Phll-lip Rausch, bandit, was killed by Mr. Thomas and another robber escaped with $5000 worth of diamonds. wa made yesterday by Dell P. Atkins, who wu.s returned to the Salt Lnk-j county jail after capture In California. Atkins escaped from the Salt lake iall November 2. and officers suspect ho was the second bandit In the Og-den Og-den robbery- ... tklns Ifl said to have admitted es-H es-H te, day In his eetl In Halt Ijake that he LH i came to Ogden on the day of his es 1 r irTc but insisted VbM he r. turned to u like and rented houseksepln room on Ka?i South Tempi Street He contends he was ,n Mil LaKO nose rooms when the OgAnn fobben look place and denies any part In .he i heft of the diamonds. TELLS r ESCAPE Mkms vesterday told a unique story ot ihe manner of bis escape from the 1 Salt Lake county jail on the morning, f rtouenouith. hta story account, for the contention of the jailer that H MklS wai in his own cell at 9 o clock on the night of .Novembei I. H escape WSS made from the eel of A. T. Emerson, who has not et , AUlns says that Emerson used six i H new hacksaw blade. In cutting t be hole in the stool plato top of his tell H t hrough Which the esc ape was mad, nnd In sawing through the bolt of till LH lock on the door of the utility corri- H dor. mto which he gained access .hrough the hole He eald that Bm-erson Bm-erson worked ten days at the job be-fore be-fore bidding him bood-bye at mid-j I crawling through the hole cut In the top of his cell, finishing the cutting of the lockbolt and dining out l" 1 the brick wall at the rear of the Jail. GOES I N WORKING Before this last VU accompllsh.'d it wan 4 o'clock m the morning, says Atkins. Who claims that he watched Emerson working at the jrall from where he was himself locked In his own cell. "I went the next morning after breakfast." tkin.-.. ul.er. ask-1 how he came to escape. "Immedlate-lv "Immedlate-lv after finishing breakfasl I n nt mto Kmerson's cell, next to mine, instead of going into mv own, climbed through i ho hole, went out through the back door of the utility corridor and the bole Emerson dug In the brick wall. I went through an alley to Third Bast street, north to Klrst South street, west to Main street, and norlb "ii Muin street. I stopped at a grocery' store on Apple Street and used the telephone " . . The, arrest of Atkins v. is brought, about through his having been ret -1 ognlzed on the street In San Fran-1 Cisco by Henry Taggart. former captain cap-tain of police here, now with the United States secret service Mr. Tag-K.irt Tag-K.irt was deputy warden at the state) prison when Atkins was serving a sentence sen-tence there. Vtklns made the trip back to Salt Lake m company with Deputy Slu r-1 iff William Hughes and George M.I Taylor and J. S. Smith, special agents for the Denver & Hlo Grande and the Western Pacific railroad arriving I here over the Western Pacific last eve-nlng eve-nlng at 5:25 o'clock. according to' hlfl guards, he wan well behaved on '; the trip lie in-IM-.1 I iK'hl when telling of the manner of hla es ipe from the county jail, thai he w.(s not armed when arrested In San Francisco and Deputy Hughes said that he uii-B uii-B der3tood such Ik OHARG1 i N ill f i in i i GranCe larceny, for the alleged theft I of an automobile, is the charge a which Atkins was extradited. Just Hr what bearing his story nilsrht have upon a charge uf jail-breaking no one; B Is prepared to say at this time. Tin ' faws used in cutting the way out of K the jail, he says were smuggled to I Il'mercon In a pair of nrmy legglna The first attack upon the steel ton of the cell was made with the point of; l' a broken sav.- blade. , short piece ivjs I broken off repeatedly r.s w.ts ln-ces- sar' to gel a new point. The saws, H were used as such when the scratching H with the broken end of the blade had Hj resulted in making a hole big enough H to admit the blade. The circular i H cut made in the cell top, of five-1 H . Ighths-lnch steel, was about a yard in H length. The circular piece of metal was bent upward w hen cut freo ex-1 H cept for about six inches on one side.! |