| Show PRISONER STARTS FIRE NEARLY suffocates the san juan county court house and jail was considerably damaged wednesday night when the lone inmate J E herington awaiting trial on a horse stealing charge set fire to his fire wood and some of the jail bedclothes the file had leen been placed against the wooden door of the jail a ai 33 i if rw an attempt to lu escape the fhe ws noticed by some youn one of 01 whom notified J ward palmer marshal elmer bailey and 0 R anderson on arrival at the jail door they found the prisoner hanging to the bars of an open window and gasping for air on investigation it was found faund that had smashed the stove and aig light ht fixture fix tuie had built a fire in the middle of the floor as well viell as against the door and had burned the bedclothes from all the bunks but hi his own and had burned some of them As the jail room is of concrete the blaze was soon subdued the only in flarria fl amable ble portion being the door probably the only besson resson the prisoner escaped suffocation was that the wind was blowing into the jail thru the open window in straightening ening up the mess a per bially empty whiskey bottle was found giving evidence that someone hed tried to relieve the ny of the prisoner prison ees 3 drab existence this thia object was temporarily at leat least accomplished complis hed |
