FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, September 29, 1916 ANOTHER JAIL BREAK Peter Smith and George Black broke out of the Farmington jail last Tuesday afternoon. There is no resident jailer at the jail building now. Mr. Beatty occupies a room there at night to look after things, and Sheriff Williams and Deputy Brown look after the jail during the day. Tuesday afternoon they both happened to be out of town. Sheriff Williams, with that sympathetic nature for which he is well known, did not lock the men up in the steel cells, but permitted them the freedom during the day of the corridor around the cells. The ceiling of the jail is stripped with steel. By some means the men got one of the steel strips loosened, crawled up between the ceiling and the floor of the second story, made their way along the space between the joists until they came to a place where they could pry the planks of the second-story floor and get out into the room. Here they lifted a shotgun and a pair of shoes belonging to Mr. Beatty, went through a window out on the back porch, thence to the ground and hiked out for -- as yet nobody knows, for they are still at large. Smith was serving a term in the penitentiary on a conviction of forgery and was recently taken from the pen and brought here to be tried at the November term of the Circuit Court on another charge of forgery connected with the Flat River Bank. Black was in jail on information charging him with the theft of an automobile at Elvins, and his trial was also to come up at the November term.