The Great Jailbreak on the Waterfront

Warren Kemp and Frank Smith, alias Hush, two prisoners awaiting trial on the charge of burglarizing a room in the Commercial Hotel, made a successful break from the city jail some time after 11 o'clock last night. They effected their escape by prying open the massive steel door at the rear of the main corridor. The only instruments used by the jail breakers were a table leg and a few bricks. With the table leg as a pry, they sprung the steel door from the bottom. Then, wedging a brick in between the door and the wall, they repeated the operation until the opening was large enough to admit of their crawling through. That the break did not result in a wholesale jail delivery is attributable to the fact that the other prisoners were all asleep. On reaching the outer passageway, the prisoners found that their pals on the outside had already made an opening for them by breaking in a panel. The fact that friends of the prisoners on the outside knew of the time that the break was to take place indicates clearly that the escape was carefully prearranged. Kemp and Smith are boys aged 17 and 18 years, respectively. The police have a good line on the whereabouts of the escapers, but it is believed they were furnished with enough money by their friends to enable them to get out of the country.