The Blackmailer's Dark Hole

Joe Young, the blackmailer, has not only refused to reveal the hiding place of the saws and files with which his wife supplied him as the means for him and his confederates to cut their way out of the county jail, but yesterday became so violent that he was put in irons and removed to the dark cell, where he will have a diet of bread and water for a month, unless he is sooner sentenced and taken to Walla Walla. Ever since his conviction, Young has been unruly, and before the revolver was taken from him last Sunday, he had boastingly said that he would escape or kill someone in the attempt. In order to compel the surrender of the saws and files, which were known to have been smuggled to him, threats of the dark cell had been made to Young, but he treated them with happy contempt. Yesterday morning, Young, in a fit of rage, poked a broom handle through two panes of plate glass valued at $4 each, and then Sheriff Woolery gave orders to have him put in the dungeon. He shuffled into the little dungeon across the hall and was locked in.