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Show A A JL. PRISONS CUT i TWELVE BOLTS TO OPEN HOLE Night Jailer Upsets Conspiracy Con-spiracy By Discovery of Sawing RYAN AGAIN LEADER Saw Found in Cuspidor; Steel Bar Hidden in His Bunk The second attempted Jail break of prisoners from the county Jail with- ik In the last 10 days was thwarted by sheriff's department officers ear! M tnornlncr in the nick of time to U prevent 18 prisoners In the "tank" II from escaping Into the outer corridor. corri-dor. Clare Porter, night Jailor going his' rounds, discovered that a metal paten, which had been sawed out by prisoners pris-oners in an attempt to escape moro H than a year ago. had been loosen' 1 as an avenue of escape. RIVETS ARE CUT. The heads rf twelve larrre rivets which were used to place the patch, over the hole had been completely sawed off and pieces of soap had been used to model heads which were stuck en the sawed rivets to prevent disetfVery Ilowew, when the rivet heads were saw d off from Insldo the tank the rivets, relieved of tho tension, protrude! on the outside oS the tank and caused the discovery. Tho patch which was found iooso lasl night Is in the same end. but on the opposite side of tho cell blocf; from where prisoners last week sawed saw-ed several bars through, in an attempt at-tempt to escape. RYAN IS RINGLEADER Frank W Rvan, held for passing worthless cheeks was again the ring- B leader of the attempt to escapo last night. His operations, however, must. ! tve heen known to the other prisoners pris-oners as the sawing took place in tho cell corridor and it Is believed that 'll prisoners had planned to make a break with Ryan. Ryan was Immediately removed from the tank following the dtscov-erv dtscov-erv of the nlot and was ,, ti .ned bv sheriff Richard Pincock and Deputy Sheriff O. II Mohlinan. Ho admitted admit-ted that he had sawed the rivets, but declared many of them had -been rawed before "the attempt to escapo several days ago. However, Sheriff Pincock declares his statement untrue un-true for a rlrid Inspection of the" tml: :md the patch was made a fevf days ago, SUV FINALLY FOUND. A search through the jail failed to reveal the saw which Ryan had used In removing the rivet heads, but ho Inter told the officers to inspect tho Jail cuspidor Colled In the upper I portion of the cuspidor thev found a net! 12-Inch hack saw blade. In Ryan's bunk ihey also found a leaf from an automobile spring which H WOUld have proved a dangerous weapon wea-pon in the event of a rush of prln- III! oners from the tank, i Ryan Is said to have admitted that 'he. had planned to break from the tank almost at the same time the plot was discovered. Once outside, ho Planned to use the sprlni? leaf to pry bricks from the outer wall and es-:cape es-:cape through the boiler room of the ifHt i jail building. After jet!oning Ryan was removed remov-ed to another cell where he was placed plac-ed in solitary confinement HE PIil ns i rn.TY Other prisoners declare they know nothing of the plans to escape and Ryan will not implicate thern. This morning Ryan was taken bo- Mil fore Judge Junes V Kimball and on-tered on-tered . plea of gujlty to passing a fictitious Check upon the Mclutyro Drug company for $11 on September (Continued on Page Two) ju PRISONERS CUT TWELVE BOLTS TO OPEN HOLE (Continued from Iage One.) ii. He e.i;l:ed to be g.ven until Mon day for sentence Ryan Is also to be charged with at tempt to break Jail after he Is sen tenccd on the check charge, it wa said. In court this morning Ryan sab ho would plead guilty to passing tb check but made It plain that he dl not want to have any charge of at t mpt to break Jail annexed to thl charge. He was told that no com plaint for jail breaking l id yet '". : fllM and then he plead guilty to th misdemeanor. OO ! We have no ri :ii evidence that cam cla were once wild |