Roosevelt Standard | 1925-02-18 | Page 3 | Airedale Blocks Escape of $3,500,000 Robbers

airedale Alred cde blocks escape of robbers kansas city kans an al pup prevented the escape from the wyandotte county jail here of fred E pot fernberger ten fen berger and keith collins collies principals in the council bluffs iowa mall mail robbery in 1920 0 1 when the dog caused sheriff maher to start an investigation he found the prisoners had burrowed almost through the 14 inch brick wall which separated their second floor cell from the jail yard A slight push would have eliminated the outer bricks and liberated the men the sheriff said it in the cell maher found an iron bar and several sharp pieces of iron which had been used to penetrate the wall two gas pipes wrapped with a padding of silk thread also were found maher said lie he investigated when the dog kept barking constantly at the wall outside the cell