Show I GUNMAN KILLED I IN DARING BREAK I ON INMATES AT OREGON PENITENTIARY PENITENTIARY I RAID ARSENAL AND SECURE ARMS Governor Is Glad Notorious Killers Killer's Career Is Ended National Guard GuardIs Guard Guardis GuardIs Is Ordered Ordered Held In Readiness For Search Salem Oregon Ore Ore Oregon Bert Jones and prison breaker Is dead after slaYing two pr prison son guards and three of his fellow convicts con arc are being trailed by several posses as the result of oC a n sensational riot and escape from the lie Oregon state penitentiary In the first violent dash tor for liber libel liberty liberty t ty from Crom the tune Oregon prison since the famous escape of Harr Harry Tracy and David Merrill in 1902 Jones led Ells Ells- Ellsworth Ellsworth worth Kelly James and Tom Murray In a raid on the prison ar- ar arsenal arsenal ar arsenal senal and an attack on the guards The career of Oregon Bert ended when John Davidson ldson guard shot him just as he lie was drop drop- dropping dropping dropping ping off ocr the prison wall A few mo mo- moments moments ments previously he had fatally shot two guards J M Holman and John Sweeney His Ills three companions ser ser- seriously seriously Injured Lute Savage guard and James Nesmith turnkey and es- es escaped es escaped In a taxi commandeered from Crom the state slate hospital The four tour convicts remain remained ell In their ceUs at supper time cut a hole through the root roof and dropped to the main yard over the administration building They dashed for the arsen arsen- arsenal arsenal al aI where they obtained four rifles and several se revolvers after aCter beating N Nesmith badly about the face race Leaving Lea the building they opened fire fhe on the lie guards in the first tower north of oC the entrance Guards said Jones shot Holman and Sweeney while the tho others escaped over the wall vall as they fired Ired at other guards The They kidnapped C V former attendant at the lie hospital and escaped escaped ed in the taxi driven by Wiley Zinn Later and Zinn were released d after aCter being belne used as protection against bullets The convicts took all of oC the cloth cloth- clothing cloth Ine Ing of the two men and belong elong- belonging belonging ing to Zinn said that Murra Murray was wounded b by the tho guards Warden A 1 M Dalrymple was in his when he saw Murray In the yard Ho Ito attempted lock to-lock lockup to the up arsenal but was cut oft off by two of oC the convicts who had entered from the south entrance Having no gun In Inthe inthe inthe the office he dashed for tor his house just outside the entrance and obtain obtain- obtained obtained obtained I ed a shotgun Jones was serving a year twenty twenty sentence for tor assault and robber robbery Wits Will WiLlos los a year seven sentence for tor burg burg- burglary burglary lary Kelly a n year twenty sentence for aiding a prisoner to escape and Mur 1 Murray Murray ra ray a year twenty sentence for tor bank robber robbery Jones Kell Kelly and Murray es- es escaped es escaped over the south wall on March 28 1924 1921 but were later captured Jones being belne brought back to the lie prison prison prison son In March of ot this year from Sa- Sa Sacramento Sa Sacramento Calif Orders were Issued to the national guard to mobilize and hold them them- themselves themselves themselves selves in readiness to ad aid In the tho I search for the three escaped prison prison- prisoners prisoners ers Hundreds of oC persons searched the district near Salem during the early carl part Jart of or the night without rInd find finding inc find Ing any trace of oC the men During the night several se hundred persons many of oC them women view view- viewed viewed viewed ed the lie body of or Jones at the Mortuary Mortuary ar ary Thank God Oregon Jones is killed kill kill- killed killed ed was Governor Pierces Pierce's comment on the fatal Catal shooting of or the states state's most famous recent convict Hell not raise an any more trouble |