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Escape at Pendleton Jail Shocks Community
Seven prisoners tunneled through a one foot square opening in the jail window during the daytime, slipping away as deputies tended Saturday tax rush. Sheriff Taylor vows arrests as he investigates which escapee aided the breakout and notes the escape was well planned with all seven missing before dusk.
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Fternoon
Sheriff Taylor
Bailey
Tows
Umatilla
Wilson
Taylor
Henry Waldo Coe
Ealy
Thomas Lair
Anthony Bloom
A. C. Smith
Louis Mettie