Show f i SKIPPED OUT Seven Prisoners Escape from the Ogden City Jail During last night seven of the vagrants confined in the cells on the second floor of the jail in this city effected their escape by working their way through the ceiling I of the cell and then through the roof letting themselves down by rncans of blankets knotted together While the operations vere going on those who were not engaged in the work of making the hole through which they escaped made an awful noise singing and dancing so that the janitor should not hear what they were doing The janitor says he suspected there was something unusual going on and looked into the Council Chamber several times thinking they I might probably try to break through the floor and escape that way as they were in a cell immediately above And he also watched the ventilator in the hal by the marshals office supposing they might try to make their escape by that I means But these birds of the jail chose another route Out of those who have I escaped three were undergoing their term of imprisonment and four were new arrivals I ar-rivals who were only incarcerated last I eveningOgden Herald 30th |