Jail Break01
Waupaca Record
THREE PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM
JAIL
Sheriff Flanagan Finds One
of Them in
Push Aside the Sheriff’s
Wife to Escape
Three prisoners escaped from the
county jail on Saturday afternoon. Ralph
Jones, who is bound over to appear at the next term of circuit court, an
Indian, who was serving sentence for abusing his wife and Babcock, whose time
for petit larceny had almost expired.
Harvey,
one of the prisoners, who is granted privileges, was outside at work and had
come in to go to his cell. Mrs.
Flanagan, the sheriff’s wife opened the door for him and Jones stepped forward,
pushed her aside and fled followed by the other two prisoners.
The
alarm was given at once and a search made, but no trace of them could be found.
On
Monday Sheriff Flanagan found Jones in
Eight
prisoners were in the jail at the time. Sheriff Flanagan was in Iola and Undersheriff Hess was not at the jail, so the plucky little
bride of Mr. Flanagan, when she recovered from the shock of the moment, locked
the remainder of the prisoners in and turned in an alarm.
Waupaca Post
PRISONERS ESCAPE
Last
Saturday afternoon as Mrs. Flanagan, the wife of the sheriff, unlocked the door
to the jail to let a man in, three inmates, Ralph Jones, Sam Wallace and Adams,
who it seems had previously planned to make an escape and were waiting for an
opportunity, shoved Mrs. Flanagan behind the door as it was opened and ran out
of the building. The parties got out of
town without leaving any trace and as the sheriff anticipated that Ralph Jones
would undoubtedly work his way to Chicago, he wired Mr. Nicholson, an employee
of the A.M. Penney co., to be on the lookout for Jones, with the result that on
Monday the sheriff received word from Mr. Nicholson that Jones was in Chicago,
and planning to go to St. Louis with a car of potatoes. Mr. Flanagan left here on the early train
Tuesday morning and brought the prisoner back, returning the same afternoon
over the Waupaca Green Bay Railway. The
other prisoners will undoubtedly be captured in a couple days.
Waupaca Republican
BROUGHT BACK
Ralph Jones, who, with two others,
broke jail last Saturday by shoving Mrs. Flanagan behind the door as she was
letting one of the other prisoners enter the jail, and running to the Third
ward, was brought back Tuesday night. He
went to
Waupaca Post
RALPH JONES PLEADS GUILTY
The trial
of Ralph Jones took place before Judge Guernsey Monday, for petty larceny, to
which charge Jones plead guilty and was sentenced to four months in the county
jail, where he has been confined the past two months. It will be recalled that Jones and two other
prisoners escaped from the jail about a month ago and was captured in
Waupaca Record
RALPH JONES AGAIN ESCAPES FROM JAIL
Escape is Quickly Discovered and a Race Follows
Ralph Jones, a prisoner in the county jail, awaiting trial at the June term of circuit court for theft, escaped again on Monday evening.
F.D. Burgess was making repairs on the sewer in the jail and Jones was assisting. Sheriff Flanagan was out of town and under-sheriff Hess had gone home to supper. It was five minutes to six and the prisoners including Jones were all in the jail and their suppers had been sent in. Mr. Burgess intending to go out at once, had left the door unlocked. Jones deliberately opened the door and walked out, but his absence was discovered before he had gone half a block. Burgegss called to him to stop but he started to run and outdistance his pursuers. He hid in the store room of the foundry and later in the lumber yard of the A.G. Nelson Lumber Co., where he hid under lumber piles. It is supposed he boarded a freight train for the south.
After
breaking jail this spring he was recaptured in a potato car in