Twin Falls County ID Archives News.....RECAPTURE PROMPT AFTER JAIL BREAK June 2, 1936
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Twin Falls Daily News June 2 1936 June 2, 1936
Five Prisoners Return To Cells In Twin Falls County Jail-

 H. E. Skyles, 36, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, asserted fugitive convict who is 
held here as a suspect in connection with the operations of an alleged gold 
theft ring, and four other prisoners were recaptured and returned to cells in 
Twin Falls county within four hours after they punched a hole through the roof 
and decended a blanket rope from jail quarters on the fourth floor of Twin 
Falls county court house at about 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
 Five other prisoners in the same cell refused to follow the jail breakers.
 Skyles headed eastward and was discovered by Deputy Sheriff A. C. Parker and 
Police Officer L. D. McCracken in a scale house at a beet dump west of 
Kimberly. He incautiously exposed his head and shoulders to view at a window 
just as the cruising officers brought their car to a halt near the beet dump. 
He offered no resistance.
 The other jail breakers were overhauled in a car on the highway near Rogerson 
by Deputy Sheriff Oris Cryder. They were Charles John Skinner, 22, of Memphis, 
Tennessee, and George Edward Holley, 29, of Salt Lake City, held for trial in 
federal court on an automobile theft charge; Charles James Anderson, 43, of 
Lamesa, Texas, arrested and brought back from Oregon to answer to burglary 
charges in connection with theft of harness at Murtaugh, and Madison Campbell, 
19, of Buhl, under sentence on a petit larceny charge.
 The four fugitives were making their way southward in Campbell's car when the 
deputy overhauled them.
 Two women, strangers in Twin Falls, witnessed the jail break from their car 
on fifth avenue north near the court house. Stopping at a service station a 
few moments later they related the occurence to Harry Beam, the proprietor, 
who at once communicated with the sheriff's office, and the man hunt began.
 The jail breakers took advantage of an opportunity given them to leave the 
steel cage for exercise in the cell room, mounting to the top of the cage, 
they broke a hole through plaster and metal lath, cut through a one inch pine 
board and peeled off the tin roof to make an aperture they could crawl through.
 Blankets tird together to form a rope, were suspended from the barred window 
over the edge of the roof and almost to the ground.
 Commenting on the occurence, Sheriff E. F. Prater said last evening it was 
apparent that a more substantial roof would have to be provided over the jail 
quarters, or prisioners must be denied opportunity for excersise except under 
close guard.
 

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