Show Pen Guards Determined Not to Be Caught Short So Towers are Barred Rec Recent nt Escape Shows Prisoners Can Reach Into Houses on Wall and Grab Guns Heres Here's a new one for the books and should Joe face he hered red red quite quite red I In the good o old d days before prison guards took to getting caught short In towers s steel el bars were used usei to keep prisoners in Now apparently apparently apparently another use has been discovered They're quite handy to ta keep out outi At any rate though it does smack a bit of Closing the door when the horse is gone gone since Robert Earle Earlc made his escape from the state prison November 11 because Guard was well was well occupied to put it delicately deli deli- cately some cately-some some new steel bars have I made their appearance on on the bIg bIghouse lg house on the hill Guards Protected Guess where they are On the windows of the wall tower from which Mister was unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately not watching what went on in the yard below him The bars and the steel screen tower lower door which automatically locks when closed are arc areto areto to keep the convicts from reaching the rifle armed guard whose j job b it itis itis itis is to see the boys dont don't do naughty things like running away Prison officials have a reasonable and perhaps sound explanation for those new bars If a guard Is thus protected from prisoners reaching him he is able to continue acting In his line of d duty ty That duty naturally ally is to see that the prisoners stay on their own side of the stone stane fence Guns Aid Escape Had those bars and steel screened door been on the tower November 11 11 they say Earle Earlc might have shinnied up the wall but he never could have walked into the tower to take Turn- Turn bows bow's guns from him Those guns were quite an important item in the escape because they were tossed to Cell fellow ow pris prisoners ners and sub subsequently fired at the tower was forced to cover and Earle made milde good his daring daylight escape The added protection will prove of inestimable value during the lon long night watches fellow guards say in that safe from personal attack a guard may sound the necessary warn 1 ings and fire his guns at the men attempting at at- tempting escape Provided of course the guard has them handy Deadline Marked Other restrictions too have been placed in effect regarding the wall vall As heretofore no prisoner is supposed supposed sup sup- posed to approach within ten feet of at it there is a broad white strip markIng mark mark- Ing that deadline But the corners of ot that deadline e have been so cut that prisoners arc are at all times within plain view of the tower Use of the handball court flush against the cast east wall has been dis dis- continued This recreation facility too played Its part in Earles Earle's es es- es- es cape C. C If he had been watchIng watch watch- Ing log might justifiably have believed I nothing amiss In the men gathered so closely to the wall It was from this court that Earle ran unseen to the corner where he affixed his escape rope Earles Earle's escape was one of the most miraculous ever effected from irom the prison guards said Everything had L to click in timing everything did He got a break Jn In more ways than I Ione one including |