| Show ATTEMPTED JAIL DELIVERY by desperate men in the county jail sheriff belnap and his associates block their attio gagae stewart identified as a tough charac er from denver tho nest know a aning or two sunday about three eliote were beara in ibe immediate vicinity of the county court hone and upon investigation it waa learned abat sheriff belnap und deputies T 11 ballantin Ball antyn and bol Cb ambera had fire a shot apiece at griffin one of the inmates who had at 0 o escape jail 1 for tareo or four days certain notions of the prisoners confined ia the county jail have led the sheriff and bis deputies to believe that all was not well in the holo so careful watch been kept on abo men friday stewart stated hat unless more blankets were provided tor bis bed he would have to leave for denver soon although the officers objected to such and that be did not propose to be fruzen out by any one saturday night the men seemed unusually noisy and happy and then sheriff belnap decided to be on the spot all daiy diy sunday and he requested the presence of deputies ballantyne and chambers also sunday the noise continued and at intervals the prisoners would call the name of one of the watchman to make cure he was not withie hearing at the same time however a continued pounding and hammering was kept up the sheriff and deputies bal altyne and chambers were afta boned at th foot of the e airs awaiting the appearance of the prisoners finally griffin appeared proceeded however by the flash of a looking glass which he was using to see whether or not anyone was in sight abo put his heid he id out of the door be saw the watcher and exclaimed obi my god its all off and jumped back but not before three pistol shots rang out and struck the wall close by the shots were tired to scare and they succeeded wonderfully for came within halt a bitch of breaking bis hie endeavor to one of crawling out the 13 by 7 inch hoi in the wall wae so frightened abat he shrank and backed out of it with ease the prito nera used a small piece 0 pipe broken from above the bath tub and it was a good enough tool to break the weak brick and plaster wall between them and the department from where they could emerge through an open door the members of the attempted jail delivery were james brown and frank siewart Sl ewart charged with highway robbery A W griblin Gri flin serving time for larceny walter mann who nearly killed john frank edwards the burglar who robbed jas bouse lihas coffman held far larceny abat stewart is ai least a desperate man is shown by the following letter department OF POLICE CITY ot september ll 11 1897 G R BELNAP esq osden utah dear acir in reply to bouis of the guht with photes 01 stewart and brown enclosed I 1 beg leave to elate aba the photo of is a frank who was arrested here july for highway robbery and sentenced september 9 1895 to atu state reformatory orv he was released from that institution a time ago we fa 1 l to identify the photo of brown but have forwarded name this day to the reformatory for identification to communicate with you in cite he is identified 1 am under the impression that siewart ia wanted by i the warden of the reformatory for viola lion of bis parole stewart is a desperate horse thief and burglar and was 0 the notorious blackburn gans who infested this city a tew years apo and who are now doing time in the colorado penitentiary yours truly S L act chief of police |
