Jailbreak in Montesano

A jailer seriously injured, and two desperate men again at large, is the brief story of what happened in Montesano yesterday afternoon. A few minutes past 6 o'clock, Deputy Sheriff Pettijohn, who acts as jailer, went to the jail to give the prisoners their supper. The jail is one of the Pauly patterns, set inside of a wooden building, and is the two-cell size. The prisoners are usually ordered into their cells before the outside door, which gives admittance to the corridor, is unlocked, but unfortunately for the jailer, that precaution was this time neglected. As their supper was passed in, the prisoners, D. Henry and R. E. Lewis, seized the jailer. As the jailer still struggled with them, they struck him senseless with a piece of wood and, hurriedly taking his revolver away, they left, going toward the woods north of the town. Although Pettijohn’s cries were heard and two or three men saw them taking their way up the hill, it was sufficiently long before pursuit could be commenced to give ample time to get into hiding in the woods. There is a large number of men out and every effort will be made to bring them back. Henry was to be tried for grand larceny and Lewis has been convicted of assault with intent to kill.