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FD-350 (Rev. 11-11-75) oo (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Tey inmates Heard Bundy ‘Preparing’ Escape? | GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Officials have confirmed that prisoners in the Garfield County Jail reported to sheriff’s deputies early last week that Theodore Bundy was crawling around in the space above the ceiling of his cell. That was the route Bundy, who was to have gone to trial next week for the murder of 4 Michigan nurse, used to escape from the jail sometime last Friday night or early Saturday moming. Police in Colorado, Utah and W shington have since received re- mo {5 ihat Bundypad been. , but he remains, at target Mbt ae In response to the prisoners’ report last week, the sheriff's department called a local welder to come in to put metal bars across the ceiling light fixture which Bundy removed to get into the crawl space above his ceil, Undersheriff Robert Hart said Tuesday. The welder, however, never made it to the jail before Bundy’s escape, Hart . y Ss The Hunt Goes On: \ Page 17 \ said. He was there Tuesday, however, welding on bars to secure the light fixture to the ceiling. ‘You Lock the Barn’ “You know the old cliche,” said Hart. i Aiter the horse is stolen, you lock the am,” The sheriff's department had re- ported that Bundy escaped by remov- ing the light fixture in his ceil, sliding throiigh the 12-inch hole it left, crawling acrors the ceiling, dropping into the jaile’s apartment and walking from the jail. Bundy, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder in the January 1875 slaying of Caryn Campbell of Deilr- born, Mich., who disappeared during! a ski vacation at Aspen. Her nude aild frozen body was found two months latér near a remote mountain road. Bundy was extradited from Utah to stand trial here. He had been convicted of kidnapping a Salt Lake City girl and was serving a sentence in the Utah State Prison. Police Continue Search : Bundy was to have gone on trial next © Monday. in‘Colorado Springs and would have been transferred to the El Paso County Jail sometime this week, | - finstead, police in several weitern slates were searching for him. ThelF BI fcrmally entered the search for Bundy - oy) Tuesday, when a federal fugitive | warrant was obtained in Denver. FF-ESIS GY / Date: j- af - 7 & Edition: 4G Author: Editor: Title: a ¢ Character: —— or a Classification: 8-6 7$ a Submitting Office: O 4/ a (_} Being Investigated at |