Show I i I I Escapee Trio Sought in ini South Idaho VALE VILE Ore May Olay 15 UP UP- UP Three prisoners who broke out of the Malheur county jail Sunday and stole a deputy sheriffs sheriff's automobile automobile auto auto- mobile were still at large Monday with the hunt centering in southwestern southwestern southwestern south south- western Idaho Oregon Oreg-on state police said the es escapees escapees es- es ea pees were Charles Thomas Melton Melton Mel Mel- ton l 17 of Bend Ore Ernest Crawford 22 of Myrtle Creek Ore and Ernest Collins 25 home address unknown The Thc stolen car was found abandoned abandoned aban aban- Sunday night 18 IS miles south of Marsing Ida on the Idaho- Idaho Oregon-Nevada Oregon highway The breakout occurred when Deputy Sheriff Joe Joc Barnes entered the bull pen Sunday morning to feed the p prisoners r i son e r s. s The trio grabbed and slugged Barnes took his liis J keys eys and then locked the deputy deputy deputy dep dep- uty in a jail cell They invited other prisoners to escape but no I others would go Melton and Crawford were servinS' servinS serving inS inS' ng 30 days each for stealing gasoline gaso gaso- line ine according to Sheriff John Elfring Collins was being held pending trial on a charge of obtaining obtaining ob- ob property under false pre pre- tense i |