Show I 1 four california I 1 states prison con lifts captured DEG FEET TO T I 1 being I 1 rp p la 12 Us tiling taking of big 1 game inn will e to tilea taken back to folsom an important event in the police annals took piece place saturday night and sunday morning which resulted in the capture 0 ol 01 I 1 four our noted rioted california criminals re who w bo escaped from folsom jail j tit on the of august and for whom a reward of 50 each la is offered and had been sent to all of the officers and the police were on the watch I 1 saturday Satur dav night abent mark and will farr F arr were driving in their wagon past the corner of lincoln avenue and twenty second street when they heard some one call out help t murder I 1 in rather a suppress ed tone as if the person wai was being strangled they ran to the gentle mane mans wis istance and found two men engaged in going through hie his clothing clo hine while one held hie his throat in no gentle grasp on seeing the boye boys the trio t r lo 10 started to run and one of th than e m jumped over a fence and bid hid mark followed and lighted fairly on tb the e mana mans back and held field him down the other two by this time had made themselves scarce in the mean time number three was placed in to the wagon and eat oat upon while a quick drive was made to the city jail where he be was turned over to the off of lerg flers one of them recognised recognized him by a peculiar bald spot on the front of hie his head when asked when wb so he left folsom he answered answered the of august cpin upa cp up in a being question more fully he said his partners a tuners were living at a boarding aug fug house on the corn corner of twenty first street and ad ewall wall avenue and that they had been working on the sewer he then agreed to show the officers where his comrada were chief metcalf accompanied by officers shepherd sheath brown br and tyree went down to tho the place directed by the prisoner and asked on one of I 1 the men on where their partners w eri mot not knowing now what was wanted but supposing the head contractor desired to see them he be said they were around the house washing all of the officers wore citizens alth clothes es oneff one of culprits notwithstanding smelled a mice and started to skip but officer tyree was too quick for him the others made no resistance the marshal was repeatedly peat peLt edly asked what their crime wai was as they aid said that for the last week they bad been working on the sewer and minding their own business at last mr metcalf pulled out little billetdoux billet doux with their portraits attached and sad one of them rang eang out my god we are gone the mens to 1 names are matthis Matt life blomer and ft n d charles Glier Oller mao sentenced to I 1 life ife imprisonment tor for murder tom wilson a six years man and 0 U kohler the man who held held andersen up and who first brat squealed serving a ten years term after being placed in the cooler they admitted ever everything athing and told w what a time they bad in getting out the cells tells were across an alley hey a from each jtb r with two men in a cell A tunnel was wall dug dog connect eg rig them and the dirt removed in gunny jacksto eack sto to some holes which bad been dog dul under the floor before bafo re the rho floor was painted and for eight long months thi four men worked on their tunnel which was to give them freedom dom on the of august the outside was reached after digging ging sixty feet through the solid masonry and mid hard soil boll the escape was one of the most the history of the stales artan prisons after gaining their liberty the quartet took tickets with the understanding that they ride on the brake beam of th the box carl and came through to ogden when they h have IL vs been working on the bewer for conae sometime time past the san francisco E examiner cami 1 I ot of the eth dinst inet has a lengthy article on their escape and the manner in which it was done the folsom author news Wes the following reply was received folsom cal sept 15 1890 J 1 14 metcalf hii f of police ogden wire we fall particulars my expense regardless gard less lesa of 0 cost will send aa an agent at t once I 1 want them at all hazards 11 your jail ail ia Is not absolutely secure bare have two good men guard them at ins expense CitAr warden another telegram waa was delivered stating that one 0 the prison officers would be in this morn ing in to take charge of the pris prisoners mers the police are deserving ol 01 great aro at credit aa as aleo also are the farr arr boye boys through whose Ins tramon mality the whole affair was wa unearthed although the rew reward ard ie Is but trifling nothing comparatively y the theolb officers cere have the satisfaction of oi duty done the prisoners are under heavy lock and key and closely watched so there ie to no ch chance ance ol 01 their escape they are a hard looking lot and to all ap pea rances would adov at nothing to lain their end the 1 I be prevailing ailine nationality tiona lity seems to b be 0 german one of the ie is an old man with gray a hair the reporters were not allowed to talk with them or even iee see them except from a diet distance atice andersen anderson iho the gentleman who was nearly garroted garro ted Is all 11 right now the oil to of money lost was but flight slight and afterward afterwards found on an kohlars Kohl Koh lers ece person |