Show PRISONER 1 ESCAPES batters a hole through prison walls with a section of pipe makes aperture large enough to escape through jenen the man who passed worthless cheis on richfield merchants has va mosed this was the discovery made by sheriff abbott this morning when he went to the jail to give jensen his morning meal A hole in the wall of the jail inches betokened the manner of the prisoners exit an investigation of the interior of the jail showed that jensen had broken a length of soil pipe from the lavatory and using that as a battering ram he demolished the brickwork from around the ventilator drove the iron ventilator out through the wall and then i crawled through the aperture to freedom he had bad prepared for his hid descent from the by arranging a short board from the ventilator entil ator ts to the down which he be slid when he came through the wall the hole is about seven feet from the ground and by using the board as a gangway he be slid gently to the earth he must have made a lot of noise while hammering his way out as the pipe he used for a battering ram weighs fifty pounds or more hot but no onu one in in the vicinity of the jail heard the noise it is not known at what hour he made his hia escape sheriff abbott considered the man of so inoffensive a type that he gave him the freedom fredom of the corridor at night instead of locking him in the A ill i ll in fact everybody who saw 4 i 1 u vi 1 tel ar e y ja him of ingenuity enough to effect his escape from a mud hut he was awaiting trial in the district court on a charge of passing checks all the towns north ind south and where ever the telephone reached were vere notified of the escaped prisoner and it should not be any great trick to recapture him the sheriff is doing doin all in his power ponner to secure hil prisoner prison cr again |