The Jailbreak at Chehalis

Sheriff Clough can consider himself extremely fortunate in that the three men who escaped from the jail in Chehalis Tuesday night were recaptured so soon. The three, while seeking to hide themselves, were made the captives of a chance meeting. The sheriff, moved by the exigency of the occasion, arose from a sick bed and made a search. He found Chester Moore, aged thirteen years, who is charged with burglary in Chehalis, disporting himself in livery stable on a side street. He then continued the search and found one of the others for whom he was searching—one Cliffton Pathey—standing in front of a perpendicular counter. The young gentleman was disposed to resist any familiarity on the part of the representative of the law, but upon being presented with the front view of a revolver, he decided he would accept the sheriff's company. The prisoner was taken to the barber shop, where the third and last of the escaped gang was trying to induce a customer to exchange some coins for a razor. Both these prisoners, headless youths, being the ones charged with robbing the post office at Chehalis in recently, were then and there searched and found to have in their possession several razors, pocket knives by the dozen and various other articles, such as are usually found in the show case of a merchant. It is plain that their flight was to go through some establishment of the kind, probably at Centralia, as that would be on their route to this place. The desperate three were placed in jail here last night for safe keeping, and this morning Sheriff Clough started with his men for Chehalis again. It is thought that the elder men, Clifton Pathey and Murphy, are the same ones who are wanted in Pierce County for burglary committed some months ago.