Show FIVE CON CONVICTS ESCAPE TEXAS PRISON FARM Outlaw and Four Others Flee Under Barrage of Machine Machine Machine Ma Ma- chine Gun Fire TWO GUARDS SHOT DOWN Desperado Ambushes Working Party to Free Pal By Br Associated d Pres Press HUNTSVILLE Texas Van Jan 16 16 CI Clyde dc Barrow of Dallas Texas' Texas most notorious desperado today ambushed a working party at the Eastham prison farm arm laid down a machine gun barrage as a convict working in concert concert con con- cert with him shot two guards and freed his former companion Ra Raymond Raymond Ray Ray- mond Hamilton and ad four tour other long term erm convicts Barrow thus regained a companion in n crime and made good Hamiltons Hamilton's boast when sentenced recently that there is no prison that will hold me Ill I'll be back with Cl Clyde de before you ou know it it il Two others a man and a woman reported to have been Bonnie Parker Barrows Barrow's smoking cigar colleague aided him Convict Con Opens Fire Hamilton under sentences totaling totalling totalling total total- ling ing years for murder bank robbery rob rob- robi bery Dery and oth other r crimes was being herded w with th other prisoners to their daily farm toil when the guards Major Maor Ma Ma- jor or Crowson and Olan Bozeman were shot by a convict Simultaneously came came- a fusillade from a partly covered coy cov ered cred ditch near the Eastham farm j cov-j headquarters I Trusting to the accuracy of the machine machine machine ma ma- chine gun marksman and apparently by jy prearrangement Hamilton and the he four other convicts dashed im immediately immediately irn- irn mediately toward the point of ot fire They leaped into a parked sedan and roared away toward the north Barrow and his companions raced away from the scene in their usual means of escape a light coupe The prisoners who escaped with Hamilton were Henry Methvin serving serving ing ng 10 years Joe Palmer 25 years ears W W. H H. Bybee serving a 1 life lie sentence and J. J B. B French 12 years The other prisoners in the group Continued on Put Page I Two o TEXAS fEXAS CONVICTS ESCAPE PRISON 11 Notorious Outlaw Opens Fire I- I From Ambush to Free Companion 0 Continued from Pao Pace One Dot made no effort to escape despite the fact all sU U are desperadoes q Within a few minutes alter after Bar Bar- sow lOW and nd his bis companions had fled tho the alarm was spread throughout Texas exas and hundreds of peace officers of of- Veers were on the highways Special efforts marked the thc plans to entrap Barrow arrow Hamilton and Sear ear Dallas where all have relatives Frank J J. J Bl Blake in ch charge rge of f fed cd- fiVal thal department of of justice agents In l Dallas aUas allas and three aides aide started south on one of the two roads into Dallas from kom that direction bearing he said VaIl th the arms we can get cot 5 Major I Crowson was rushed to a hospital where he was operated op op- crated on in Iii an m effort to save his Ufe lite Before he was put to sleep he said The break happened at 7 a. a m. m Bozeman had taken a n squad of 17 men men to th the woods but they had not to work I 1 asked Bozeman to tell a n cap captIn cap cap- tIn ln to take Hamilton Hammon back into the squad where he ho belonged Hamilton then went into Bozeman's squad quad Palmer approached Bozeman and producing a pistol said Stick em cm emp wp p boys S Palmer then shot me in the ab ab- ab dome Jomen omen He turned and fired tired at Bt t Bozeman Boze Doze man who was on a horse but missed Bozeman returned the fire but also aIso missed and Palmer then shot him in ilie hip At that time those In fn a ditch near nearBy neary By y raised up and nd began firing a machine ma ma- chine gun Convicts ran everywhere every every- where here 5 R R. J. J McCafferty another guard was reported report cd to have been shot and left lying In a ditch but confirmation was WU lacking in reports to the prison system stem headquarters headquarters' here |