Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-10-08 | Page 21 | Tunnel is Found in Prison Yard

1 TUNNEL IS FOUND 1 IN PRISON YARD I I Convicts' Convicts Plot to Escape I 1 After They Toiled Patiently Pa Pa- t Three rC ie By J J Dannemora N N. T I. 1 Oat Oct T. I of ot th the e ta tat prison hero here ha ha- t discovered dis covered a. a tunnel Tt 4 l by under the prison On yard and reaching half halfway way to a It big trunk terror sewer WhIch would have o-f o afforded forded a a. convenient exit for tor a a. wholesale jaIl jaU delivery Th Tho tunnel has b been three e eon year tinder tin tini UD-j UD under i der construction and was waa still sUll not more mora than half halt dona dons It was wa started by two I term Ute men They could not snake make rapid progress because 0 of at tho ho difficulty of ot disposing of the dirt which they had hd to mix in small maU quantities with furnace ashes from the laundry One of ot th the tb two was as an engineer and he had worked out by intricate calculation calculations the tha exact angle at which the tunnel should be ba dropped to reach the trowel After Atter the tha tunnel was found a a. ear search h was made of at in the tho prison From the tha cells calls were ware taken two wagon wagon- loads of nondescript stuff including stilettos hammers monkey wrenches sandbags blackjacks fish pol pole s s and knives