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Show THE OGDEN rHURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 1' 1921. ESCAPE OUTDONE BY ROY GARDNER EE GRI GARDNER DOLL1 E - - - t STANDARD-EXAMINE- R . Isjapid Prison, Handcuffs and Leg Irons Fail to Hold Daring Western Post Office Robber, Though Love for His Wife '' ,SSC--5as- . JlZ it0---i-- - V T - . roy Twice Caused His Surrender to Face Long Terms ' :1 milled about, scowling at the guards and glancing longingly toward liberty. This diversion kept the guards busy for a few minutes until they had quieted the " suddenly aroused convicts. , Then they started the hunt for Gardner. The Island covers about twelve square miles and most Aflre was of It is densely wooded. started in the underbrush to drive Gardner out. Instead it helped him by raising a thick pall of smoke. Howboats and launches were sent circling around the Island to head of! Gardner should he try to swim to the mainland. The officers were uncertain whether, he could have secured a start to block his path. before they were-abl'Some of them' said Gardner had been wounded-ancould not go far. Others de- glared that" he had merely stumbled and went like the wind when he regained his footing. Warden Thomas Muloney expressed the opinion that,Gardner was In hiding on the Island and would be driven . from cover to get food. So the third search by Uncle Sam's expert "man hunters was on after Gardner, the "human eel." As a last resort a close watch was seVon Mrs. Gardner In the hope that' her husband would try to communicate' with her. Each previous time that Gardner escapid' and was recaptured it was while he was trying to reach her or communicate with her. Mrs. Gardner, when she received word that her husband was again" at large, hurried from, a ranch where she had been'living to San Francisco to await news of him. IE great siren on McNeil's Island cut loose with a strident scream. There was a crackle of rifle fire from the j guards In the towers or. tne iCTlmmest prison fortress In the United State There were the signals to the outside (world that Roy Gardner was "out - agaln., r ... had teen found it n thought he tr.ight ftt tome outside, that ,usttdtf this help. The time came for the' prisoners to go (o !ed. Mulnall announced that he would st up and watch for any attempt by Card-:to escape. Into an upper bjirli.. Pyron a hott-fctlll with leg irons on. Gardner", too. was wearing "Oregon boots" and was handu3ed. He asked permission to take his oat off and one of his hands was released iroci the handcuff. Sn swt.tly that tbe offkera had co chance tu guard themselves. Gardner drew a revolver and pointed it at Mulhall. Ht had enrrte,! the gun in an Improvised holtcr attached to his undershirt and tha revolver a strapped tight to his body by Mulhall's hands d narrow leather lelt. nt up. but Hlckel. who was at one tide. Marted to leap for Gardner. The Vaadlt wftly pWkd Mulhall's revolver frCrn Its bolster and turned It on Rlnckal. "Ycu are likely to be dead a long time." rcmindc-the him. ent up and Gardner liinckel's band lled to Pyron to tome down. Pyron iimhered down, took the kaya from Mulhall an Tom V.'lnj: had done with the guard o:i the f rst occasion Gardner escaped, aod t.x.k off the handcuffs and IfC treat. With h r,u shackled Mulhall and lllnckel. em P. to pi;es. auJ Gardctr S'hing nnlkrd out of the compartment, through he :r and ttp;tcl off the train. t - ' Gardner was known to the prison officials as the most slippery prisoner they ever; had put handcuffs on. He boasted - ' - that no leg irons had been Invented that could .hold him; that no prison could keep eer e v.i.! him. r. Vv.:"; Twice in his criminal; career Gardner had! escaped- fronvthe shrewdest men the Government, could set to guard him on the way to his prison. .Twice he joked ' with the man hunters' on whom he turned revolver from slipped guard's the tables and made prisoners la his place, holster. ; 'And ! twice' he laughed when he was re Now you can both put your hands up." were 'escapes his He he said and' covered the guards with the thought raptured. officials. He his revolver. thought goddj6ks on the ' Their hands went up as though they him. on were good jokes captures were on springs and Tom Wing reached &ilOar4ner. came to be the most closely s he likU on lb fojuier The lourl .isio... over and took the handcuff and leg iron run Into a heavily wrpoded tract some was for .watched prisoner in Uncle .Sam's most th his out eurrmindetl To?se ami Alir lu;e elutlliig pursuers one spread of the guards. keys from the pocket of U.i ! wood. oncers a t man hod Then ..ri! the thut in hfK.in stone not they He removed the irons from himelf and by closely guarded jailguarded iffii KutnbUnx ihlly near llufovill They Gardner, who then helped himself to the him. Finally the members of th fryiX and steel, bars; and armed guards In met be centre the of the tldere! nd In ia the :iiibllng houe an". wood, second guard's gun. He directed Tom alone, but by i the., very , conspiracy .of iftarn to to V.nl (Gardner sUtluc -- t a tab'e had Gardner that enteral scipeJ. They Wing while the Chinese handcuffed ths even n looked r natural forces. V Set xm a desolate isle in on cards ivith Into in hia bainUs, There chance the the officers to the second Chinese and chained treetops '1 tn or had he retell Sound' to i with aT- wide; stretch" of chance time this Ret to to taken branches the rlat get aay Avoided Possible Recapture the leg irons to the heating pipes. Puget: mu ' as not Heroner beoii away. weapons. any Chinese robbed second Gardner the ra.ce then mill , at '.speed He Would Escape By Hiding in Small Town f water: Tunning as flicker an eyelash. 'tween island and mainland, It is a prison Hoped Because of His Long Term of $20 why they did not include this Choked Railway Mail Clerk "Coma In. of2cera." he aid totJUKy i'jrwu Urked the ttaudit'n Iron nerve -prisoner in their escape never was ex -- which makes the escape of Monte Cristo ., thTbrealc. "I am for mAm And a:vi but plained and left the stateroom, lookin at the lat moment leaped through Looted Registered Pouches you." waiting " 1T ' his admitted Gardner identity, from the. Island fortress ot nateau willingly a 8lnce ne raade it I hope he gets clear the door behind them. window .walked w'ateh lntead of following Gardner. was Tbe They still .tiug kept for but indignantly denied that he had com This save warning of the escape sooner H oundrlikvrec.reation o passaway a lazy V away out of the country," she said. "Will through tffe train, taking their time, and Gardner when he showed up near rirU.iret than Gardner had intended. Pyron was mitted the second robbery. ' the world blame a wife for holding such hooped off the train as it slowed down afternoon.r, on 19. Southof tha The a nlrht May was identification Dicker's mitale a hope? Fifty years of imprisonment is to enter East "Tortland station. Tha taken without trouble. Then Jue drag-re- t ern Pacific Filer had slowed down and " no to aftnan a for wera face, trrible as thrown tut for Gardner. Net a shouted ami Six prospect for Weeks, finally help guards Quiet for First The mall clerk. Halph Decker, who had left Wife Pleaded for Confession now to And tra.-e- . done. he what has a of a!m for up to released Gardner. direct hunt tha old .', But Watch Is Maintained patter tihisfoJCd snd door of his tar partly open, was busy the And Once He More a uc never down coast A of Obliged search utis and was Pacific uuyo the ciiteu wife resorted to. up luu. witching iwj not a revolver with him. as urged tu Once inure Mrs. Gardner Gardner had been in prison for six has Roy Is not failed to uncover any trace of the bandit at his mail sacks. Put Uy this lime the bandit bed learned a slight sound behind him nsk weeks. He had settled down to the routine., all bad. He sent. bur. baby girl a doll he until officers who had been watching hla nndDecker heard hrr husband to tell the truth It was that there was dauxer in writing or ttls- As to started around. he turned swing of allowance. out Ine It tyls near home had and bought prison Napa, Cal., tapped phoulm to her. Instead of going near any He wrote letters to his wife and told her came U'tter tor (iardur to ronk a tlran on hhn a rwtnther. like Gardner leaped was he last f the pt-I, house Thursday... to the ranch be expected, telephone wire leading of his ith than to i;o througii wjre he mlshi he was being treated "fine." He spoke becoming reconciled to histhought fate and I was where his wife was livjng heard Gardner choking him into seniionsciousnc.s.. Thtn trial. crime he to Wafh. ert There Lt ("eutralla. He had twenty-fivyears waiting he looked over the mail pouches, selected, pathetically of the day, fifty years distant. going to live in Tacoma so I could.be near talking to her. the little village's hotel, tfce rc2lterd 'hJra it fof anyhow, they told him. and if any Oxford-Houseone registered mall and leaped ha nee" fdr when he would be released to rejoin her him." "Oh, Roy. why did you break away when from containing clemency ever should develop the train. So the hunters arranged to keep close you know Mr. Marioa iiowcil. owper of the hotel. will catch you and it will It would and ; their little girl. Jean. "The prison be better if he confessed than to they As soon as Decker could get his breath on Mrs. of in Gardner tab the traphope be us woman harder for all?" the uppkious o? her guetL She said only tand trial and face certain conviction. officials were almost convinced, but they he gave the alarm and a new hunt started husband. Gardner 'and his wife wailed over the wire. her Liter ping had no particular reason, bat Once again Mr?. Gardner pleaded with for Gardner. Decker bad recognUctl the kept a close watch on Gardner Just the both blame an Injury received in a mine warned "make Jui by lust inn. She appealed At lenztb he grinned. "Well, if it will you feci any bandit from a circular with his picture her husband accident several years ago for his Impulse same. to IauI ? town's police chief, the JTinr. "I yea ,;olng to tell them In the end. easier I'll surrender, but first I must see and the hunt was carried on with re and Close as their watch was, it was not half to criminal tfcts. He has a silver plate you and the all lo one, forrc ronstable ut wanted to have iwme fun wltb. them the bandit replied good doubled energy. Federal officers. State and baby' some been had talk his in and there skull, to went hotel and when Card-i.e- r the on the guards. he wild. "It It win so c4ose as Gardner's watch you any Snny local officials, as well as hundreds of volun tlrst." about an operation designed to correct his naturedly. I him. Gardner I will own robbed Decker."' aprrcHi questioned up new. "You must not try it the officers are teers, took part in the searth. He waited for them to relax their vigi impulses and perhaps cure him of criminal hlui but plauslbl answers, Sonny Gardner went before Federal Judge Will pave Officers found Gardner's trail nrar Linlance for just an instant. An Instant was tendencies. Gardner had a chance of lib Lot. after you and they will kill you it held h!m up and removed a bandage was llnally He (.'. lam Fleet. sentenced 3n lk .. get you," Mrs. Gardner said. "You coln. They, gradually worked him down an that Gardner ever asked. He made erty In this direction a slim chance. It Is they of Gardner's face. which covered had better a canyon, where it would be eesy. another twenty Ave years on McNeil s There wa no part surrender into of away." right no but chance slimmer than ' his true, no secret of it. sljn of any wound or "I guess thy must want a fight, said they thought, to cut him off from escape Island, making fifty years in all. Aa Mar able to outrun the gantlet of armed being arrested Gardner. The 11. out Socny .Gardto shal beckoned Holohan turned James the On ; Labor, Day the bandit musingly. "If that is what they and starve him out. There were 150 men prisoners at the prison." guards bandit told be wanted to play a huge Sonny follow ner to him said: the bandit to watch a baseball game between two ' Gardner had committed several small want I will give It to them. The only way in the hunting party, every one of them Federal The juke. Maragents were esifig Is warn Mr. to "It you. my duty scratch teams from the prison. They burglaries, one in a jewelry store, when on they can catch me is for 'me to give up. heavily armed. Onc more they worked shal, resource of to track the Government every I am McNeil's to not that going down to the centre of their circle. Just as wele In the prison Vard cut off from 11b-- ; April 16, 1920, he first attracted serious I can stay out as long as I want to." he down and Mid. Gardner, Hoy HI Island. get away again. tceysS The officers traced the telephone call. the posse had done at Napa. When they attention by a daylight holdup of a United failed miserably. would make them It tlAi Ban Francisco was to taken erty, by a high barbed wire fence, with States mall Gardner, When reached the point from which met at the centre they found a mall sack they truck In San Diego, Cal. ' towers at the corners, In which sat watch-Jail until he was again started chagrined to learn that while they wars Gardner had called he had vanished. handed broad and in ripped open and tht coverings ol the county Single daylight When the time came to take him tearing up the Pacific coast to find tbelr A posse armed with shotguns was hur- parcels It had contained strewn over the north. ful men. with loaded rifles and orders to the bandit held up .the truck being driven Marshal Thomas F. Mulaall. an man he was the prisoner cf a scall town shoot to kill. The game went on and the by Raymond Stock through a crowded riedly called. Every foot of territory was ground, Oardner apparently had taken his Deputy. guard, and a prohibition constable la a small town lockup. street and escaped with half a doxen sacks beaten over, and finally on O'KelPs ranch, time to make a careful selection of the experienced guards' became interested in the play. "I am Hoy Gardner." he announced W. Rlncket. were assigned to agent. David " tWamatically. " Suddenly a shout went up. One of the of registered malL The loot in negotiable about eight miles away, they saw Gardner loot and then had deeamped as tnrstfr guard him. , convicts had struck the ball a terrific wal-- , securities was $67,000. The driver of the . me." said "I'm Sonny notified the Government agents, glad they picked truck was able to give a good1 description went In force to take Gardner to Mcwho lop and was doing a "Babe Ruth," can "I like the job. If that bird .for dear life. There was a yell, from cf the bandit. Gardner was trailed and Neil's Itland.. He was loaded en a train one. lis la get out of my net he's a good t the "bleachers and for a moment every arrested without resistance. lie denied I after now because being carefully searched, was loaded Just as good as in McNeil's the crime. His wife pleaded with him to ."TSONT decide anything when you art to cotton-tthe young man who ge tur down eye was turned on the runner. with, handcuffs and leg Irons and do not Intend to take my eyes oS him dn his tell the truth and he finally gave In to appointtime, keep regularly who,, was a to detectives. at chained such down; time feeling your" ments once." Break for Liberty Rouses her pleading. ' faithfully, a man upon whom ha one thought la to get tha thing can When the train reached Tacoma tw Gardner as submitted to a ml nuts rely. The bandit apologixed handsomsly to ' Other Convicts to, a Dash automobiles loaded with Federal cCeers search. Not so much aa a pin was found you are ready to yield everything. were , The next instant three other men were Stock for epithets he had used to him What you want to do when you are feeling For lomi years, now, I hmrm been trylnt on him as Mulhall started to take htm out walling. In one of these he wax while the not He like did truck. holding up is to that wait a to tha bit; (Uva thing get myself under perfect self control, mt of the Jail There was a slight delay whisked away to Steilacoon, where the running running towardfthe fence for life mean to hurt his off for a while until you are feallng better, .that X wouldn't he feelings, explained or boat that runs io McNeil's Island was by owing to unexpected orders to take Card and liberty. Gardner was In the lead. He to as you surely will. There never waa a atorm anything, and be surprised X wouldn't but to cursed Stock, scare him. him. that just bo especially ner north by another route than the one waiUjtfc, The second machine,' which had ..whipped out a pair of wire cutters and but it cleared off. bringing bright skies be surprised Into yet Gardner I ws sentenced in the Federal that something saying in which Gardner was riding, planned, so that another prisoner could he trailed that snapped through the strands of the barbed District Court to serve twenty-fivand cheery weather. It will be Just the wouldwlah X hadn't No aald. end of ' thlnrt yean same with your little period of drew and was back Gardner up lu occupants got cut asd his wire. As he leaped through the gap the on McNetl'i. Island. lato up, picked depression; ..turn up, at home and abroad, on which wa cell for a short time andpat on stood , while Gardner and hla the wharf Bui-was taken then ' In towers the will guards began shooting. pass, too, and reatore, to you a tens Vre instinctively prompted to comment, but like to do it to please the Judge," itof confidence were was to the Island. He to oat cot and searched the train. guards and freighted lets were whistling around the three fugl-- t he"I'd' on which comment would be better courage. said with a broad grin, "but I'm afraid this' On Thla la the frame. of mind in which you hard feellnta being saved thereby. spared, occasion Ives. Two of them faltered for a f racthey The managed to. land again. never see me, and it I ever want to attack the. daclUe things might te of no real importance what Gardner Joked with the cOcers when he Gardner safely In the' prison and tbs oon of a second.. A fraction of a second is McNeil will dont problem: happen to land there it will be a short anything when you are feeling down. - .a long time when a man is aver, except as we might make them so by first boarded the train and told them he guards heaved a sigh of relief. It was dodging bullets, visit.". . ' . people cling to and magnify, had changed his mind about escaping and June 17 when the doors finally closed en i They went down ; - one dead, the other friend Mr. Wingleby tells me that he opposition; My are that ldeaj opposed. Wounded. had decided to go along until the lime Gardner. Held on Gardner kept going. He Up the Prison Guards read the other day about a man paying ia that came to leave the The trouWe about .things He took to prison life from the start and ran so fast," the disgusted guards said jail and then had With Weapon of One of Them 12,000 for a dog. Mr. Wingleby say that "rivn y: w told his guards that had he known often his mind he decided and JZZZ. , changed again vfterward, that It seemed Impossible that rTT;;. Gardner was put Into a stateroom on if. he had $2,000 he ' wouldn't buy a dog -well how he would 'be treated there he care to not did McNeil's to Island. go , a bullet could catch up with him. the solid Pullman, running from San Fran- with It. you have to get tbe baUt of being on guard ' would have made aa much trouble not to he became and Mulhall's Then Everett Impyn and Lbwardus Bogart, cisco to Tacomal Two Federal officers quiet If you would avoid involuntary comment Politeness is about watchful as eyee appeared ratkar dejected. two former soldiers serving life sentences were' in the room to a trait a.s a that you would regret. Cut exercising your going. He wrote regularly to his him. Two fn a trt ssn A V about ai helpful guard ia on was and II. the tone of his letters, which, cf wife Portland la great fun. In this exercise I At taken Norrls for vicious crimes committed while in the Pyron " were read before leaving the a was He do advanced have cos counterfeiter going up coarte, board. somewhat. I slip a army, were the men who made the dash ruuer wna loauea "an 1 I helpful, to icg likes be will do punctuality. It when Everybody and convinced half oocaslonally. the c facials that he with" Gardner and who fell. for long term. prison, . , irons and was handcuffed to the Chinese. treated politely, and." as surely, everybody takes me a day admit, or recover two to settled to my down had . . . j The break by Gardner and the sight" of One of these, was named Tom Wing, and in try to win cJemeaey ' who keeps aerenity. Cut on the other hand I have Extra Guards on the Train, m punctual. man. me man would shorten his that long stretch of hair the gap In the barbed j wire fence turned he frequently' broke into lamentations in his appointments, whatever they may be. on been aa much as thrto weeks without lilwt' an Rescue In a the short Fearing 'the 250 convicts in the prison yard into his sJngsoTQg language. Attempted century. stay there he am In not I time, the business of giving down; end I fully expect to do better and were extra There scattered with made friends the and beguards advice animals to frantic wild guards for men. If were j young but I I should better all the time. "He must think that scenery looks like liberty. There to watch the for train came popular with the other prisoners. tell them that there Is nothing that can any was a howl from 250 throats and the con- - .China." said. Gardner with a rrin. and th .Tou win throughconfederates who. Try exercising your to rr.If'.t How be obtained the wire cutters U as more them a profit plan of than find most habit it started the fence... for and Guards sprang- officers turned nd glanced out of the punctuality. refreshing atreng thening: yicts boss "Gardner The has often little slid .had man of a mystery as tte source froca conlie. lor the much escape, and help will find young fancy you Incidentally their them into yourself with rifles.;, (wJndow. path, menacing , who hurries and scurries In one or two or tributing to the happiness of were San concerned others in the that which he got the revolver he carried with everybody and'' drew The convicts sullenly As'he turned Gardner reached over and . four or five minutes late; but he soon learns around you. ' together no evidence of him from San Francisco county JaiL and holdup, Diego although ' . ' . br"Tb Jfiw Tork Hral4 Copyright. : - i d - -- , i . ; ; . - i - r-- pe ;t ft 1 u .- - - . 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