The 21-year-old broke out of the B.C. Pen with hardened criminal John Clark
But in 1903, Vancouverites associated it with a couple of “notorious jailbirds” who broke out of the hoosegow and were on the lam.
Both the Vancouver World and the Vancouver Province splashed the break-in across the front page the next day. The normally staid Province ran photos of both crooks — a rarity in 1903 — along with a lurid story on Clark’s criminal history. “Always tough-looking, with the slouching gait of the man who is bred in the hobo habits, he attracted the attention of Police Officer Snyder,” said the Province.
Jones was described as a slim, blond-haired, 21-year-old who was five-foot-seven-and-a-half inches tall, had scars on the right side of his upper lip near his nose, and was “temperate but an opium fiend.”
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