Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-28 | Page 2 | Five Convicts Escape Prison

FIVE CONVICTS ESCAPE PRISON Place Dummies in Beds at Hospital Manner of Flight Fright Is Mystery MICHIGAN CITY Ind md July 28 W IP Five Five convicts four of them convicted con con- of bank robber robbery escaped d from the he hospital of the Indiana stale state prison here early carly today The manner in which the men effected cf ct ef- ef their escape was a mystery The convicts Involved in the break break were John Burnett 27 sentenced from rom Vermillion county to ten years ears imprisonment imprisonment im n. for bur burglary lary Kenneth Rogers 22 22 sentenced from Vanderburgh count county for robbery t to ten years imprisonment William C. C Jay 43 sentenced t to 20 years from Allen county for rob rob- ber bery Louis Crail Crait 19 sentenced to lo 1 15 years ears imprisonment from Lake county courty coun cour ty for tor robbery Marion Marlon 25 25 sentenced t to 20 years ears from Marion county for rob rob- bery It is believed the escaped convicts placed dummies in the hospital beds which were unnoticed by the guards as they made their rounds A door to the basement of the hospital hos hose pital pita was found locked but a skeleton skeleton ton key was found on the outside The door of wood construction lends leads to other doors beyond it which ar armade are made of iron I I