Show TWO BY FELONS IN LIBERTY DASH Oklahoma Steal t Autos Hold Owners as Hostages JAILER CRUELLY SLUGGED Roads Roads' Blockaded to Halt Fleeing Convicts GUTHRIE Okla Okia May 28 iv- iv Three heavily armed prisoners who escaped from the Grayson Grason count county jail at Sherman Texas Sunday after alter slugging a jailer were making a wild ride for freedom across Oklahoma today to to- day after two men While speeding between Ardmore and Turner Falls this morning the fugitives George fugitives George E E. Droddy 19 10 Adri Adrian ln Petty 16 18 and Roy Batts 21 21 encountered Rob Robert rt Jones of oC Dallas who was en route to Wynnewood Okla Okia to visit relatives The fugitives abandoned their car and took Jones' Jones holding him as hostage Two miles north of Guthrie in central central cen cen- Oklahoma the seized car stalled and md the fu fugitives stopped another motorist motorist mo mo- taking his automobile His identity was as not ascertained After Arter shaking hands with Jones the fu fugitives iti es warned him not to make a report of the and released released released re re- re- re leased him He reached a roadside telephone and notified officers Roads were blockaded throughout central Oklahoma and in southern Kansas The three prisoners ver in ih jail on auto uto theft charges J Boys Two Men Held ELK CITY Okla May 23 28 ff R- R Two 1 men suspected of oC three Bristow Bristow boys and n a Spokane Wash hitch hiker after stealing the thc boys' boys car in northeastern Oklahoma Sunday w were re held at Sayre today The four lour victims were released unharmed unharmed un un- un harmed after afler being held in a woods all day yesterday near Elk City Cily The four victims identified the suspects sus sus- peels peets and their own car shortly after arriving in Sayre officers said The two men gave the names of Continued on Pare Two FLEEING FELONS KIDNAP 2 MEN Steal Cars a and d df f V tV j- j V Hold Owners as as' as V Hostages 1 V V Continued from PAre Pege One James Dixon of Indianapolis and Howard Johnson of Denver The boys B. B BC B.C. c Butler Buner To Tommy y Dy- Dy 1 ion and Glenn Williams all about 17 years old and the hiker hitch O. O J. J reached a telephone after at af t ter tr r the hoodlums rel released them and started westward along highway 66 last night The two suspects were picked up In Sayre Sare The boys had been fishing in Creek county when two men came along in a car car that evidently was stolen tolen they said The strangers abandoned their car and forced the boys to relinquish relinquish re reo re- re li linquish theirs taking the three fishermen fish fish- ermen and their companion along The boys previously had picked up Hannington near Afton Okla Okia The hoodlums about 25 years old reached Elk City abo about t noon The They drove to a woods and held the boys hitch hiker until after af at- and md the captive t ter tr r dark then started westward agaIn gain The kidnap victims will attempt to Identify the suspects today |