Show CRAWLS FOR MILE THROUGH A SEWER TO GAIN FREEDOM Clyde Stratton Postoffice Robber Robber Rob Rob- ber bei Escapes F From Fort Leavenworth I Kan Mardi March 23 3 29 Lj Clyde Stratton college collego graduate serving a fI c year five ear sentence In the federal prison at Fort I Ie orth Leavenworth for tot tire the robber robbery of ot tho thio McCool Ind md postoffice postoffice post- post office escaped today by b- crawling a amile amile mile through the tue prison Two other prisoners who mado trio tn attempt with Stratton captured The captured men were overcome o h by sewer gas S and were pulled out of oC tho the sewer ewer unconscious When revived the they declared Stratton had escaped This morning Stratton and his two companions reported to the prison authorities authorities authorities au au- au- au that they hey were sick They were sent to tho the hospital with a group of or other prisoners On the way the three disappeared d. d This afternoon a trusty trust passing a B sewer that ran from froma rom a n tank back of oC the prison laundry laundr to toa toa I Ia a ravine a mile away awny noticed a mans man's It legs s hanging out of ot tho the inch eighteen opening He lie pulled tho thio prisoner out and sounded an alarm ularm After Atter tho the prison officials arrived a 3 second man was captured d exhausted from Jn gas Stratton hoover had a 11 start of ot four tour hours and escaped Stratton was received at tho federal fedral prison March arch 13 last and arid the authorities authorS authorS- ties had been warned that he was waa a dangerous man Ho He was arrested In Chicago o December 20 W. W Hll 1912 for tor alleged connection with the tho mun r and robbery rob her bery of J J. J H. H Lo Logue uc a n diamond dealer who wax was found dead in his offices s in McVicker's fc theatre building Chicago Unable satisfactorily to connect Stratton Stratton Strat Strate ton with that crime tho the Chicago au authorities nu- nu turned him over to tho the federal fed fech eral oral officials and he was waa convicted 1 of oC robbing tho the at McCool and brought here bore Stratton had boasted of the fact tact that he twice hind had oscap escaped tl from froni the penitentiary peni at Columbus Columbua 0 O. each time through a newer Jewel Tolling Telling of oC one of ot these escapes he heI I said I I 1 obtained the head of ot a a barrel painted It black and substituted it for foran foran foran an Iron Hower cover It was wat an nn old sewer and I thought no rio ono one could crawl through It ft But I decided to tomake tomake maJ make e the attempt I first sent n a to tomato to- to natO mato ato cnn can through learned of it Itt lS safe re arrival at tho the sewer mouth and later crawled through throng myself It took mo no five hours to go 0 a u distance of ot one onema ma mile I 1 C. C |