Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 3, 1920, Page 2

SATURDAY, JULY: 3; : ing above the prison t CONVICT SOON WILL BE STRONG mre “oa te more onions, but now his taste tor | J ERS B 4 nauseates him, the sight of an opr eauses him to shudder. Each time his bread and water is.served, it is said, it is’ accompanied by. a salad course, onions—big, raw, pungent onions. Smith was sentenced to prison here for robbing a safe in Laramie county, His term is from six to ten y dating from October 25, 191% He is 4 years old, and by trade is an automobile mechanic. At several places in Mon- tana he is wanted, to answer for felon- ENOUGH TO BREAK PEN AGAIN IF ONIONS LIVE UP TO REPUTATION ey | RAWLINS, Wyo., July 3.—When William B. Smith gets out of the Wyoming penitentiary—it appears to be the concensus of opinion Wyo. ears after they. were CHEYE. Thirty ‘NE, duly, thei Mr: \jes and for breaking jail. Before he was} WY. were married here Tuesday. that he will get out long before the state is ready to consent, to his ‘arrested for the crime for which he was pee their quarrel three decades wi : ; m mt into Ne |f ago their ways parted and each was going—he probably will, be unable to look an honest onion in the | sent, Here be menaced vO eet ey aa | married. Reventiy they” fo selves residing in the sa face, or view an onion in any wise whatsoever without the anguish of wretched recollections. Smith, who is in real life what Houdini i is in Smith was pr country deputy sheriff. - carried an auto- pared for trouble. He HATCHET OVER 30 YEARS OLD 3— tom lovers’ ubarrl wach ehateces ir first romance, Jay Gossage and dic Statler, both of Burys, and as each had been widowed. thex claims of former service. men and. ii telling them of their rights under thc appointed here, with W. O. Wilson us chairman, ——=— NEW ORANAGE O'STRIT FORMED: WEAR, INERTO uly 3.—The Big! Bend drainage district is being formed south and east of here to bring several thousands acres of land under irriga, tion, not included in the big Riverton) drainage project. Promoters of the pro- ject are said to have met with co-ope} @. ncing | . Every Evening | Excepting Sunday fies a wera Jnatic pistol with the safety “off”, He | renewed the courtship of their rent ite ing e -atale eka ’ ration “on the part of all landholde e tho wev" : eputy ounger years and the weddir 5 see "shakes ant botteysuttcienty strong, nor the ower anal Mmauentaoveney thet, e CoD a ay te outeomee ee fl Moot Union Orchestra and ibe y cachinnation—is be-/resourcefulness of the verison offict 4 2 , oe 2 _ Re field ai coording to re, [sufficiently effective to acid A cape Re he Get tae cagen Lier Se RIVERSIDE, PARK ports filtering from. behind the gray ‘tive. He has escaped from otatri when he learaed that the officer had U.S. INSU. ANCE Glenrogk, Wyo. te prison here. Twice prisons—his record in that respect is 7 been unarmed. 7 impressive one—t a week, appears to be. War Risk In-} day where it is* cool state} dancin: Only place to dance the Fourth of: July- Minneapolis Ladies’ Jazz Orchestra will furnish music afternoon and evening] in new pavilion whch is mosquito proof: Bring your picnic party and spend: the} and Iris Pavilion it is said, he is)® as aMeER warving tar ternts crvedl onions. He will continue, he boasts he is, the kind of a-bird vo gnree to five years, dating trom wovem- AGENE EN CEFY served onions, it is related, ad|can’t keep in a cage. ¢ Ber 1918) for Sagrada? laro Sonn { =e Smith is being ‘disciplined, of couzse,’ mitted in Laramie county is Smith is the jinx of the official staff, £0" his violation of prison rulcs. Con- years of age and ter by trad 1, Land of the Wreming penitentiary. He de-/fnement in the death house ts a portion ‘The customary 1% outstanding. surance officer ed. to ‘the clines to stay put anywhere they put/°f this disciplinary: process, wreal and tor his apture of Wyoming from Washington °} him. Compared with him his justly|W@ter is another. portion, but onions, i in Casper today from Cheyenne, famous pron mate, Mr, Williams E,|PFison reports indicate, suppiy the re-| Bert Dick and family spent ves he has established canis % train banait™,/fimement of the punishment to which terday visiting with friends and attend-| headquarters. He will be 8 gentleman who is no slouch at a urge to escape com rank amateur. “You can’t keep this bird in a cage”, Smith insolently taunted, and then proceeded to prove it. That why the onion diet. Seriously, the narra harrowing. } Recently a alarm went out from the st on that Smith had es- caped. The’ Jock of his cell’ door’ had been manipulated with an implement cunningly fashioned from a tin can. A dummy of bedding reposed, very life- like, in his bunk. Two bars had been’ sawed from the window of the prison he is being subjected. He subsisted for four days on onions alone while crouch. ranch Jul the efforts of ing, to business here from their at Bates Hole. aping when the o'er him, is a ve kitchen with a meat saw. William 1s Smith—t are other Smiths in the Wyoming penitentiary—was paged, but did not respond. | Posses were organized and scoured the bleak surrounding country. Word Rcieteee For Sale telephone to neighboring cities and . towns. rds bearir a descrip: and offer of reward were haste: mails, Within a few hours eve and other peace offi in ar several hundred mile: son the } 1 imaginatio ne Essex Runabout out for Smith. Off! tured him as skulki in the by-w: crouching in the dim recesses of freight car, a guest some lonely sheepherder’s camp or hiding in an ob-} ° lodging house of some nearuy! ned to Smith. “ 2 Ninety-two hours after Smin srneaied he re-apr thin 2 A hi aciated, | One Jackson Eight fithy wreck of aman emerged from’ al hole above the prison oven, driven at} last from his retreat by ago: y of thirst. The will to e: was stil! strong within him but t msi of ° his flesh was stronger, and drove him e axwe Delivery Body forth seek water. Miserable, but 9 still defiant, he seized by guard : “Never mind—I'll make it next tim he croaked through eracked and swol-| len lips as he was pushed into a cell in ALL THESE CARS. ARE IN A-1 the death house—a prison within a prison within a prison. How Smith for for and four! nights was able to endure the torrid tor-! ment of the hole above the oven into! which he crawled when, after gainins] the tantalizing freedom of the prison! yard consummation of his plan to es- cape was thwarted by the vigilance of} the guards on the outer wall,, only he} can tell, and he is not communicative. | The place is hot as a Turkish bath} and dryer than the heart of Sahara. For ‘ninety-two hours he crouched} Ou on @) there, every moment of the period en : @ Corner Yellowstone and Kimball veloped by shrivelling heat, and du ng ull that time the only sustenance t! passed his lips was that contained in i bunch of onions he had snatched in the prison kitchen. For four days and ioa nights he hid in that hole, voluntarily submitting to suffering befitting the damned, doggedly awaiting the cppor-; tunity—that never came—to scaie the outer wall. ls Somewhere “outside” he believed was waiting his erstwhile “bunkie’, R Lofton, whom, Phone 1400 — he had promised to join when Lo succeeded in amazing effort to cape which was failure for Smith. Somewhere, perhaps very far away, he convinced Lofton, with the fidelity criminal to another, was expe r nd he she will to justi the expectation. If only could have} withstood the torment of thirst a little longer, if only the heat of that hole had of onc hi Cool tints Breezes Are at your command with the turn of a switch abated for a little sp: perhaps—but thirst drove him forth, and back to the) death house he went. \ It was from the death house that] t April made one Smith and Lofton 12 of the most remarkable escapes in prison annals. Bach long had been per. sistently planning to thwart the law] by ‘leaving the penitentiary before the expiration of his term. Time and a: detected in preparations they were a “break”, and eventually the acting warden, the late “Cap” Brine, deter- mined to teach’ them a lesson. Stripped to 1 and overalls, they were shackled together with leg irons and immured in a cell in the death house With no tool exc 1 coarse needle of had stole in they picked s, cut through 1 ue pfton eel which shirt fa locks of their leg the the meta! wall of their sock of the main ceor leeth) house, tr sed the r cell hause sealed three tiers of ce cut thror the ceiling into the attic, broke through the roof of t and ¥ ft fift Love the yard—in a howling bl meee from dine ded! bedding found in the attic a crude rope. they lowered themsclve to the and. there ged un iron bar care-} lessly cast by a workman. ‘Phis 3 OP ys P 4 they bent into & book and attiched to ¢ _ they Three cents’ worth of Electricity will operate a Westin improvise rop and th hook Tey rs eerie cunainalel the) house Fan one entire day-Cheap Comfort. yard. While snow f Ited his p head and feet and icy gusts bit at his shrink ime flesh, Lofton scaled the wall and) Bropped outside just as a guard detected was the lest. seen “There’s a size for you.” the cugitives, That of Lofton—he made clean get-away) n Gespite the severity of the blizzard und; tl inadequacy of his — protection against i Smith, under the mets of the guard's leveled rifle scuttle way from the wall and hid, to be atron ar a forth after a prolonged search. O* A Ter. 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