Show CONVICT WITH ITH I C C. C Of CAUGHT Louis Edwards Who Wh Escaped Escaped Escaped Es Es- While on Trial in i Salt Lake Held i J Hono-J lulu Prison Record Long HONOLULU N Nov v. v 27 By A A. A PLouis P P. Louis Edwards who admits that he Is one of or six prisoners who es escaped escaped escaped es- es from the eastern Pennsylvania Pennsylva Pennsylva- nia penitentiary at Philadelphia July Tul 14 14 according to police was I arrested here yesterday upon information mation matton obtained by Authorities from froma troma a circular i f Edwards Is described by officers as an an IJ crook He came cameto to Honolulu recently with the San Francisco chamber of or commerce commerce com corn merce which Hawaii on a trade excursion According to his story stori the six prisoners paid to guards guard at atthe atthe atthe the penitentiary and were permItted permitted permit permIt- ted to escape in an ash wagon He Heis Heis Heis is said to have been serving a sentence sentence sen sea tence of or twelve years in the peni peni- When he was arrested Edwards was engaged In preparing preparing- a booth at a carnival He is said sald to have been the life of or the party during the sea voyage of ot the trade excursionists Police ascertained that there had been no thefts reported during the trip PHILADELPHIA Nov 27 Louis Edwards one of ot the six ix men who escaped from the state pent pent- here on July 14 and re reported reported re- re ported captured In Honolulu was re-I re serving twelve to fourteen years for automobile stealing assault and attempted Jail breaking At Reading Pa Word Vord of or his arrest was received by penitentiary of officials officials or of- yesterday and withheld pending further developments I IThe The story etory told by Edwards that prison guards were paid to assist in the escape was not de denied denied de- de nied flied at at the penitentiary today because the officials have no knowledge they said sald whether any any guards were were- involved How pistols pig pis which the prisoners carried when they escaped were smuggled Into the Institution has n yer been determined I Edwards' Edwards story that the six men escaped in an ash wagon Is contrary contrary con con- con I to the facts The six sir held u up- up several severa prison guards scaled i the Inner wall of the prison yard by toy means means means' of ot a ladder made In the I Iby prison carpenter shop and let I themselves down n on the outside with ropes made of different I kinds of or material Police of or Honolulu have had Edwards under suspicion for some i time According to word received I here he had made three three trips from San Francisco to Honolulu About a month a eigo i the chief of police at I Honolulu asked for a detailed de description description de- de I de-I of Edwards James Brown one of or the six was arrested n Brooklyn N. N Y last month and nd is back In the i penitentiary and T. T J. J Gillen another another an an- i other of ot the sextet was fatally I shot In a pistol duel In a New NewYork NewYork I York hotel a few days later I Edwards was arrested in 1916 In Washington D. D C. C charged with i housebreakIng and escaped ac accordIng according according ac- ac cording tl to police records In 1918 1918 he was arrested as a slacker In Dayton 0 O. in 1920 he was charged in Salt Lake City with larceny an and l escaped during his trial in 1920 he was arrested in Jacksonville Fla and to six years for larceny and es escaped escaped escaped es- es while working with a road gang at Lutz Fla |