Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-18 | Page 16 | Flying Tackle Halts Escape

Ij I FLYING TACKLE I I I C Guard rd Balks Daring Attempt II j of Prisoner to Gain Cain I Freedom I F SAN QUENTIN PRISON Cal Cat Oct 18 UP pP A A flying tackle kept James P. P English P.-English EnglIsh Berkeley convict behind p prison n b bars today after he had dodged a hower of bullets in a daring escape attempt Still tm suffering from wounds received re In a D. holdup English chose what gu guards considered one of the most 16 routes to freedom I Leaving the convalescing prisoners prisoner's ward English climbed to the roof of or orI I the prison building He dropped 20 feet to the outer courtyard and md started to torun run Bullets spattered around him rum I Chester Traston a guard off duty duly intervened With a well aimed flying i tackle Traston brought the fleeing convict down Guards took English lIsh back to the convalescent con I ward vard He will vilI be placed in ina a later of officials said he prisoner was serving an indeterminate I minate sentence CC with witha a maximum of i 20 years for an attempted drug store I holdup in Berkeley He Hc was wounded wound wound- ed in a a. battle with a policeman in inI inthe j I th the robbery