Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-30 | Page 3 | Bany Dynamiter Broke into Prison and State Asylum

Bany Dynamiter Broke Into Prison And State Stat Asylum syl m AUKEE Wis Aug 30 0 AP Ap the former Milwaukee convict and burglar who last week exploded a a. bomb bom In a bank bajik killing BIlling a guard and i himself and andI injuring twenty three persons because he was denied a demand for 2000 had the distinctIon distinction tion lion of being the only man who ever broke into the Wisconsin state prison nd the State Central hospital hospItal hospital hos hos- pital both at Waupun He was a genius as a mechanic and was said to be able to duplicate most any key after alter once seeing it eccentric nature came caine cameto to the attention of prison officials officIals' In September 1920 He was to b be released after serving a seven seven- year seven r e term for burglary but he pleaded that he be permitted to stay In prison explaining he wished to con eon continue work on a perpetual motion machine prison officials recall Despite his protests he was was was' freed Two nights later guards sighted a shadowy figure fleeing across the prison inclosure A search disclosed hiding beneath a building He lie showed a n. key he lie had made with which he had unlocked a u. wall tower door used by guards Adjudged mentally deranged was placed lri lir in the tho State Central hospital and before long it was discovered that he had an as assortment assortment as- as of ot keys crudely fashioned from tableware bone pone and scraps or of metal Th They y fitted many of ot the hospital Inner doors C CI readily admitted he had made mad Just because he liked to H 11 appeared from this part o 0 country in 1923 1922