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Show ML By Means of Jointed Gas Pipe and Escape, One Recaptured. Canyon City, Colo , Jan. 21. Scaling the twenty-two foot wall by means of a Jointed gas pipe secured from tho engine room, John Rellly and C. E. Cummlngs, two convicts last night escaped es-caped from the state penitentiary. Rellly was recaptured near Florence later In the night but Cummlngs is still at large. Both men were employed In the boiler room of the prison at night. -.While the guard was conducting the other prisoners to chapel, the two men turncdoff the steam stopping the dynamo and leaving the prison In darkness. Hastily Joining two sections sec-tions of ga3 pipe, which they hooked over the wall Rellly and Cummlngs climbed the pipe and escaped. |