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Show Tvoiwloro FIcoSSciiO Prison; Gain Fcur-Kour Mead Start - - . . . j i '' ' I I I 1 .'s 5 1, - 1 ' I . . ,t i , i i ...! Edward Ilsaaewry' ... Failed ta wait fee pa rale hi Oceober. Jeeech Oeagb ... Eeeape at getting te be a kabM wtta Slav The can of the open road again beckoned two Inmates of the Utah state prison la Sugar Houss late Friday afternoon when s pair of trusties, assigned to the prison farm, walked away unnoticed from the farm area. . . Warden Masoa His said Satur- Orwgon Convict Wounded In Prison Escape Dash SALEM, Ore. Jury t (CP) a James Wfes, 17-year eld asms to ef the Oregon stass prises, eras she as the leg by a guard sad captured Balm day a few salsntee after he serepjd frees a pisjlliiarltry work gang. . Wren broke sway frees the I prissa yard while he waa srerfciag aa a sraJL day that al Salt Lake City, Utah aad stats highway patrol officials had been alerted for ths two men. Ths two ncspiss srs: Joseph.Qough, SS, Logan, serving serv-ing five years ta Ufs ea s robbery charge. Edward Haaabury, XI, Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, N. H., serving one to 20 years for second degree burglary. Tea Saxes May IS ' The break" brought to 10 the number of Utah ooavtctawhe have sec aped from ths prison site In Sugsr House or the Pouit-ef-the-MenntslB prison farm since May 1. - Warden Kill predicted an carry capture of the escaped pair despite the fact that the prisoners had a four-hour head start ea erarch-lng erarch-lng parties. "Ws get them all, sooner or later." Warden Hill eaid. Prison breaks are getting te be s basil or hobby with Gouga, a tough, IS-year -aid convict enih s long record. TnOAf escape marked the fifth time Gough has Sea PageS, riml 'St. 2 Trusties Flee Stale Prison Coatiaued frwa Pars Oas raped from penal Institution Hanabury, who had served almost al-most three years of hU sentence, was due to appear before the Utah tat board of pardons In Oo-tober. Oo-tober. .Warden Hill described his escape as "foolish," pointing out that the New Hampshire matt was almost sure to receive a parole date at the October meeting. Detail Incomplete Details of the escape were Incomplete In-complete Saturday. Warden Hill said that the two convicts had been present at the 3:30 p.m. check Friday afternoon. Cough was operating a tractor on the farm and Hanabury was working in the vegetable garden. The pair were reported missing at the 4:30 p.m. check, but Warden Hill said the escape alert was not sounded until about 6:45 p.m. Friday. Fri-day. The time lapse was due to a careful search of the prison grounds for the two men. j Questioned on the feasibility of' tiling trusty prmieges to Cough t in view of his four previous scapes, Warden HiU said the pris- with two other prisoners. He was captured that same afternoon. - Not a Single Report Saturday, Gough was free again, with no reports of being seen In his fourth escape. City and state police officials reported early Saturday afternoon that not a single report had been received on the whereabouts of the escapees. However, routine alerts have been sent to surrounding states. The stats highway patrol has not set up roadblocks because the two men were gone almost four hours before the search started. There waa no indication which way the pair went. Although offering no excuses for tits 11 escapes In the past month and a half. Warden Hill pointed out Saturday that the Sugar House prison Is woefully overcrowded. over-crowded. "We hava 48S men crammed Into quarters built for 250 men. He defended the trusty system, explsinlng that men are made trustees to alleviate the crowded conditions In the Institution Institu-tion "ss soon as they prove themselves." them-selves." Gough Is S feet Inches tall, weighs 127 pounds, has a dark complexion, black hair and brown yes. His third finger on right hsnd is amputated at the joint I Hanabury le ln pounds, 6 feet 1 10 Inches tall, dark and has blue eyes. oner had made a "splendid record" rec-ord" since his last escape and had worked hard to earn the outside work. "I talked with Gough at noon Friday," Warden Hill added, "and was very surprised at the break." Super "Escape Artist Gough has made an Impressive record as an "escaps artist" His string of escapes started In November, No-vember, 1937. when he walked way from prison before breakfast break-fast after serving five months and 14 days of a one to 20 year sentence on second degree burglary. bur-glary. Hs enjoyed four months and three days of freedom before being apprehended on a Logan street by a Cache county sheriff. Gough was sentenced In California Cali-fornia in 1942 to 10 years In San Quantln prison on grand larceny charges. He escaped the same year, but was recaptured. He gained parole from the California institution insti-tution In 1944. But In November, 1945, Gough waa back In Utah state prison on his present sentence. However, he didn't stay too long. Just before dswn on Sept 5. 1946, Gough scaled the prison wall, scrambled over the outer fence snd escaped Into the night He was captured the next day at Cache Junction. It took almost two years for Gough to plan his next escape. On Aug. 27, 1948, he assembled a pipe ladder, and scaled the waU |
