Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-11 | Page 15 | Honor Prisoner Breaks Pledge to Governor; Makes 4th Escape

Honor Prisoner Breaks Pledge I To Governor Makes Escape I RALEIGH N N. C. C July 11 AP AP- AP Otto Wood convict subject of ot an m experiment in humanities by Governor rO O. Max Gardner was at large larse toda today In his 2115 fourth escape from Central Central Central Cen Cen- prison yesterday Wood broke a pledge that he would not try to escape again as long as Governor Gardner was In office After his third escape Governor Gardner singled Wood out for an experiment had hacI him released from solitary confinement In a a. veritable dun dungeon eon where ho had spent pent twentysix twentysix six ty-six months and made him an honor prisoner I Wood was serving from twenty twenty- two and one hut to thirty years ears I I for Cor the murder of or a Greensboro pawnbroker He was committed In 1923 and Is wanted In Virginia lnla and Tennessee after completion of ot his term here Previously he escaped ped from Crom the Ohio state penitentiary When made an honor prisoner he told the governor gO I wont won't offer I you 11 m my word of ot honor because that wouldn't be much but you ou can n be sure of ot one thing Ill I'll never run runaway runaway runaway away as long longs as s you are governor The governor when he learned of or Woods Wood's latest escape said I 1 7 do donot donot donot not regret releasing him from solitary solitary soli soU- tary confinement but I do regret his betrayal of or m my trust In trying I to treat him as humanely as other prisoners at states state's prison are trea treated ted