Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — TWO ESCAPE; ONE CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

TWO ESCAPE; ONE CAUGHT.

Third Prisoner Refuses to Leave County Jail. Peru, Ind., Dec. 1. —George Bowerman and Henry Holtz escaped from the county jail about 5 o'clock last evening by removing bricks from beneath a window in the corridor on the second floor of the building. Holtz was caught at Rich Valley, nine miles east of here. He assumes all the blame for the delivery and says he never saw Bowerman after they left the jaiL The prisoners had received permission to use the corridor for ex-1 ercise and to clean it. They broke an iron bar from one of the doors and with it they made an eighteeninch hole in the sixteen-inch wall. They crawled out after dark and dropped twenty feet to the ground Their escape' was not discovered until an hour later, when the jailer went to feed the prisoners. The sheriff notified persons throughout the county and officers in adjoining counties. The prisoners were in jail charged with larceny. One other prisoner refused to leave, as he regarded six months in jail better than an uncertain living outside. He had been placed in jail on' the charge of intoxication and disorderly conduct. The Democrat for job work.