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Show I i Prisoner Jazzes on Piano in Spite of Menacing Flame GETTING fire to the padding of his cell in the county jail at 5:30 w o clock ltust evening, Antonio Hornen, insane prisoner, narrowly s.-ape,! a tnphuiil death hy burning. The oik-d eauvas covering the l padding shol ou1 intense Flames ahd it was onlv through o,uiek a i "" t,ir' part of Deputy Sheriff 11 Mohlman and Alex Erase, a trusty, thai Hornen was sumiI DeDUtV Mohlmin in, I Prncn ft...... . . -I the flames which poured out Into the1 Jail corridor and unlocked the man's I cell. All three escaped with their hair and eyebrows singed and no' worse for their experience I Tl Mi Nr in i ENSE Intense excitement prevailed for a half liour after tho flames broke out I for all the prisoners were removed from their cells to another part of the county building. While Dcputv , Mohlman and Ernse worked desper-' desper-' atejy to unlock the cell of the insiin.' man, Sheriff Plncock and his force j went Into the jail Interior and lined ! up the prisoners. They were- then , marched from the J.UI to the women's i ward where th" were guarded until i returned whn the flames were sfiuelchi-d IT. VMES sl'Hl . Before th- flames could be extin-1 mulshed by firemen, the ceiling of the jail corridor had been damaged and the wooden frames of two doorways burned almost entirely away. The cell which contained Hornen was not In the Jail proper, but in n rooii adjoining :he lame room where most of the prisoners nre kept. The man had been placed in th'- outer room lust iiIkJu when taken from a -trsuv -Jt.Ui! poliie :ftr -rHwinT Tpni of mental de.-anK-ment. Ves-terday Ves-terday afternoon, however, he became violent and smashed a window In the' room which resulted in his brine j placed In the small padded ell MOIDL-H w HI I j BVS1 l Shortly after u:30 o'clock Intense smoke suddenly began pouring from ; his cell and when Jail attaches ran to' 'the door flames were nlready shoot-! ing out. Deputy Sheriff Mohlman pro-: cured the keys to the room In which the padded cell was contained and! opened this door. It was then necessary neces-sary to open the padded cell from which the flames were shooting. Ernse aided Deputy Mohlman In the task of unlocking the door and once was driven back in the corridor I by the flames and smoke. He dived' bark in the outer room and aided Mohlman In getting the do,,r "i" " PRISONER Kl N 8 Mohlman and the trustv were' groggy h they left the fume-filled cell with the supposedly Insane prla- oner and the prisoner look advantage of the opportunity nnd started out and. down the alley. But Deputy Sheriff' Henry Blackburn nnd another trusty, Jaek tiller, set off m pursuit and captured cap-tured the fugitive! Meantime Sheriff Plncock and Deputy Sheriffs Charles Bincoek and Pred Tout tool: charge of Ltuw25 j prlsoneis from the ceils and Bpl them under close guard In a room near the front Of the .tall. "Whltey" Farr, one of the prisoners,) helped td relieve the situation by jumping at once for the piano stool ind he reeled off Jazz music while the smoke whirled abut FIRE so OCT The intense smoke filled the entire county building and drew a large i roWd The flames were extinguished I within fifteen minutes alter the arrival ar-rival of the fire department. Hornen was on his way east on an I overland train when removed last! night due to his peculiar actions. He was being held here temporarily until preparations could be made for tin-contlnunnco tin-contlnunnco of his journe). He earn from San Francisco. After the fire' he could not talk coherently and will probably be held hero for investlga-' tion. POI a short period the smoke audi excitement broke up tho voting In the1 municipal bond electlonon the main floor orthe building The voting was resumed, however, shortly after C o'clock. n r |