Jail spots sheets hanging from cell, foiling escape attempt

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Staffers at a jail in eastern Washington state foiled an escape attempt by spotting a long trail of knotted bed sheets hanging from the window of a cell housing a suspect in a murder-for-hire plot.
They saw the rope of sheets that nearly reached the ground around 4:30 a.m. Thursday and put the Spokane County Jail on lockdown. The escape “was thwarted by the good work of the staff,” FBI spokesman Frank Harrill told the Spokane newspaper The Spokesman-Review