Show y THREE WOUNDED THREE WOUNDED IN PRISON BREAK Five Fail in n Attempt to Flee Over Walls of Texas I Penitentiary I By Bt P Associated HUNTSVILLE Te Texas as March larch 7 7 7 Three of five prisoners attempting a break f from om the state penitentiary were critically wounded by guards when their escape was trus frustrated ear ear- ep- ep Jy Wednesday ly-Wednesday W The five convicts escaped from a acell acell cell ceU row row by m means aI ank of a key they had m made de in the prison blacksmith shop They descended a fire lire escape in th the thc vicinity ty of the death ch ber prison y yard rd where an unarmed gu guard rd How Howard rd Bas With one of the convicts pressing a knife against his throat the guard called for help and nd attracted attract d the attention at at- n of another guard who shot the prisoner holding the knife The Thc Theother Theother other four lour ran to a ladder arid and d began to scale the thc wall and two of them were shot by guards before the thc ascent was wa-s halted Charl Charley Chancy y Frazier alias EldrIdge Johnson serving two life lUe sentences was shot hot just above the heart and critically wounded The Thc two others w wounded were Edward McArthur serving a year 10 sentence for burglary burglary bur bur- glary and Pete Finch serving 10 years for burglary Two other prisoners participating In the attempted break were Roy Th Thornton serving a year 50 sentence for lor robbery and Robert Hill serving 99 years for robbery Prison officials said Thornton is the husband of Bonnie Parker the thc smoking cigar accomplice in crime of ot the the notorious CI Clyde dc Barrow southwest southwest south south- w west st desperado and killer |