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Show THIRD CO,' I VICT ELUDES POLICE III II.Y.MCII Geary Jumps Out of Window, Escapes Officers SYRACUSE. N. Y, Nov. 17 (AP) Detective Sergeant William Wil-liam Metzger of the Syracuse, police department laid today that police had captured John Oley and Harold Crowley, two of three convicted O'Connell kidnapen who escaped early yesterday from Onondaga penitentiary. pen-itentiary. Metager wild that th pair war token without reaiatanee a a nomine home mm Boraett arena, new the city's downtown koat-neee koat-neee section. Ha aold tho oaotur waa mad by acting Dotoetlvo Robert Holland, Patrolman Harold Kelley and laW tenant John Eblngar. Metaer aald tha thro fflotm, making tha houae-te-houa March, . oama to a two-room a pannan I on tha aacond floor of tha boua and found tha room locked, but key -in tha door. . . . .. . - r Ha aald thty turned tha key and burat In. finding Crowley and Otoy seated In chalra. Metiger aald they ordered tha men to throw up their banda and that thev submitted "without a hit of trouble." Percy Geary, a third mam bar of tha trio that mad thair way to freedom by sawing through call bars and binding up aix penitentiary guards, was still at large. At Albany, Chief Inspector Albert B. Moor a of tha stata polios bureau of criminal Ivastlgatlon, said ba was Informed that Geary, who waa aiso in tha apartment, escaped by jumping 15 feat from a bathroom window. Moore aald that Lieutenant It F. Dillon of tht state police la Syracuse, Syra-cuse, from whom ha obtained tha information, axpraastd belief that . Geary might have been injured. Ivan Whltford, a janitor who was forced by tha three men to supply them with milk, tipped off the police, po-lice, Metxgar said. Dillon aald two .M-caliber pistols were found in tha room. Whltford told police that he bad gone to a vacant house at tha corner of Townsend and Burnat avenues. Ha said that when ha walked into tha cellar of tha house on of tha man, whom he later recognised rec-ognised as Geary, stuck a gun in his stomach and that a few minutes later the other two emerged from hiding places, all holding guns. He said tha men asked him where ha lived and that they forced him to taka them to tha house and provide pro-vide them with soma food. H said he decided to tip off tha police wbil he was out getting tha men something some-thing to eat, police said. |