Show English Youth Boasts No Jail Can Hold Him T. T 1 British Roy Gardner Ready to I Try His Skill on Bars at Strong Dartmoor Fortress LONDON March llarch 17 England's England s slipperiest prisoner hot after atter the record record of of Americas America's convict convict con con- vict has Just been transferred tra to Dartmoor Britain's strongest strong fortress fortress fort tort ress from which no man has es escaped escaped escaped es- es In fifty years jears But Arthur Conmy Js s still hopeful hope hope- ful tul lIe He expects eventually to equal Roy Gardner his American counterpart counterpart counterpart coun coun- who vho has succeeded in breaking Jail jaU three times Both men boast of the fact tact that they never used a gun Each has escaped under strangely similar conditions Conmy was serving time for burglary burglary bur bur- glary lary on the island of ot Wight Inthe in inthe inthe the English channel Gardner was doing doing- a sentence of ot twenty five j years ears for robbery on Mc McNeil ells ell's s is island island island is- is land in Puget pug sound Both are I barren arren Isolated places ALl ALT POINTS WATCHED In Conmy's case the authorities were sure he couldn't escape to toI the mainland All boats and harI harbors har bar I bors were e watched Systematic em I g t il combing of the little Island was start started d. d Hysterical women called In night I and day with reports r that they he heI had seen nd the hew prisoner Conmy o was reported to be In forty places at once As a matter of fact he lie wasn't far tar from the prison rl He lie h had ca cast off ed edh I his convict H garb b and was s found Cl clothed r d dp In the garb garb garb- Of a p preacher a lIe He was put in Irons But the British papers denounced this They virtually said It Is the business of the prison guards to keep prisoners rs safely locked up It is the business of the convict to Jf r he can It Is not I fair to punish him because he outwitted them r FREEDOM SHORT snORT LIVED Th The irons w were re removed Seven weeks later Conmy esca escaped ed again But he was still weak weak- and was caught the same day Now he has been removed to gloomy Dartmoor l biggest of ot all English prisons It stands in the midst of ot bare moorlands moorlands moorlands moor moor- lands fifteen miles from th the nearest near near- est eat town Only one re convict lc ever broke o awa away gl gla ft oe Two days a later ho he came back c a al almost r most dead from exposure Gardner Gl made his first t escape while being taken to McNeils McNeil's Island is island island Is- Is land for mall mail robbery robber He lie Jumped from a a atrain train and el eluded arrest for more than a year Three days das after atter he robbed a second mall mail car of ot he was rearrested Again he got away by manacling his guards and leaping from the tho train but was recaptured Then he escaped from McNeils McNeil's after atter serving only a few months by dashing into a herd her 1 of stampeding cattle After Atter nursing for tor two weeks a bullet wound he received he swam to the mainland He tried to rob another mall train but was overpowered over over- powered by the mall mail clerk He lie Is 19 now flow at Leavenworth RUSSIA SEEKS MORE MORE COAL VLADIVOSTOK March 17 The The Far Eastern branch of the All Russia geological survey department has decided decided de de- de- de to make a complete survey durIng during during dur dur- ing the coming summer of ot all the mineral mineral min mm- eral bearing regions of ot the The first places to be surveyed will be coal fields of ot the upper dietrict district die dis the coal fields of upper and lower low low- er and the tho Iron deposits of the district Arthur Conmy the British Roy Gardner Above Dartmoor pris- pris prison pris- pris on where he ho is is now confined |