Show Convict Tells Inside Story Of His Escape Robert Earle Declares He Hev v Will Vill ill Go Straight From Now On OnI I 1 aint no Im I'm here to todo do my stretch I aint no angel but Im I'm going straight from now on Thus did Robert Earle de declare himself him self pelt as Utah state prison doors again clanged shut behind him early Thurs da day Earle EarIe escaped by going over the wall of ot the prison last Armistice day and was caught Saturday in Portland Earle pleaded for support of his his his' assertion that hes he's going strai straight ht Im not riot as ns hard as the cops and newspapers rs paint me he said After I went over the w wall ll at th the Utah pen the papers branded me rae a killer and criminal of ot the worst kind all wrong Sure ure I did didong wrong tong ong in b breaking away But Im I'm not a killer I could have killed a guard ill had wanted to but bit Im I'm too tood d decent c for that r- r i t Tells Inside Story While prison officials and guards listened d he told for the firs time tim the inside wide story tory of his sensational break last November started when he surprised Guard Joseph In Irl the l lavatory in the northeast guard tower and fired a shot at him before dropping to the ground outside the thewalt walL walt Three of or us simply made a rope by ripping our blankets and tying the pie pieces together he said We knew on ont one of the guards guard's habits pretty well wen because all the prisoners were put putout putout putout out in the yard every day and we could see sec everything thing he did around the guardhouse on top of the the- wall We waited until he went into the thc restroom up there and then we slung that made rope on the wall Yeah It was easy to make it stick sUck We had copped an iron hook from the machine shops a few days before and had kept it in one of pur Slur beds When the time came we Just jus tied it iton iton on cn the end of the rope Hides Trade Secret ask Dont D Dont nt ask me how we kept kept- the guards' guards a attention from the rip ripped d blankets and hook That's something of f a a trade secret But it just goes to show how how bow dumb prison guards guards' are are he added smiling smiting After the guard was out of sight I got ot the rope tope up in in a 8 hurry climbed it and beat bent it H to the Hie guardhouse I thought the other boys were follow ing ng I 1 I got in the bo house se just in time and caught the guard unprepared He Re had four guns in the place and I grabbed them He y yelled For Tor Gods God's sake dont don't I told him it was okeh if he behaved himself When I looked out 1 I saw RW the other ather two fellows had had hai tough tAugh luck The Tope rope had broken I 1 tossed them them a couple o of guns and then jumped off the outer edge alone Holds Up Attorney Outside I 1 commandeered a car In InI Ina a I service station a block away am and drove to a wooded gully where I 1 hid hit until dark Then I sneaked out still carrying the guards guard's shotgun and stuck tuck up a man who turned out t tb to tobe tobe b be the county attorney Earle appeared at th the home borne o of County Attorney Harold E. E Wallace Wallac the he night of the escape forcing the prosecutor at the point of ot a gun un to give jive him food Mr Wallace was darned nice Earle Earlc continued Told me Id I'd better go o back to prison Guess I should hould have lave tak taken n his advice but I pushed on and remained on the loose until the he Portland dicks picked me up with an ex cx They took teok my fingerprints finger prints and here I I Iam am Earle in his story exonerated Joe Gray who with Harold Osborn was suspected at the time of participating In n the planned break brcak The papers are wrong about aboul Joe Gray being the one with Osborn anc and m me that da day he said He would have ave nothing to do lie with the plan Figured hed he'd d get out pretty quick anyway Never mind the name of the third guy EUY He Hes still in here |