The remarkable criminal career of 15-year-old Elliot Michener (sometimes spelled Elliott Mitchener) continued when he and another lad escaped from the Kootenai County Jail in Coeur d’Alene.
He was being held in jail while preparations were made to send him to the Idaho Industrial School, a reform school, for stealing thousands from his Philadelphia employer and his father in Coeur d’Alene.
Somehow, Michener obtained use of a pole, which he used to “fish” a set of keys through the cell door. He unlocked the door, grabbed a pair of handcuffs and a razor from the sheriff’s office, and fled with the other boy.
Soon after, deputies discovered the boys
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