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Show i THIRD KIDNAPER i FUGITIVE SEIZED SYRACUSE. N. T, Nov. 19 Wilt Wi-lt wu freedom's nd to4ay tor three members of the 1831 O'Con-nell O'Con-nell kidnap gang their capture effected ef-fected through information sup-plied sup-plied by a janitor and a parking lot attendant. Percy "Angel Face" Geary, leader of the desperado triumvirate which staged a daring escape from the Onondaga county penitentiary at nearby Jamesville. N. Y early Tuesday, wai seized yesterday afternoon af-ternoon in a Syracuse parking lot hanty. The other two. John Oley and Harold Crowley, recaptured Wednesday Wed-nesday in'a Syracuse rooming house on a tip supplied by a Jaintor Ivan Whiteford exactly M hours after their escape, were brought to Albany Al-bany and lodged In the Albany county Jail. To Probe Break Meanwhile, from Washington the Justice department ordered two in-veatigaUona in-veatigaUona of the escape, one through the federal prison bureau and the other through federal agents' questioning of the recaptured recap-tured prisoners about the identity of a go-between who may have '"District AttorneyWilliam C Mar-tia Mar-tia obtained a court order to impanel im-panel a grand Jury of 24 and planned to begin Monday an invea-- invea-- ligation into the break. Federal agents sought to obtain custody of Geary last night at police po-lice headquarters, but were refused by Syracuse police until after routine rou-tine Identification was completed. District Attorney Martin said the agents would need a court order to assume custody. Third Captured The trio faced long prison terms for the kidnaping of John J. CCon-sell CCon-sell Jr. of Albany, They were being be-ing held in the Onondaga Jail pending pend-ing an appeal and were slated to become Inmates of Alcatras prison. Five others were convicted at the same time at Blngbamton last August. Au-gust. It was Casper Mirra, 30, a parking park-ing lot attendant who furnished the tip which led to Geary's capture. Geary, injured when he leaped from a second floor window te escape es-cape capture at the time his two companions were seised, hobbled a block and a half to a warehouse across the strest from a parking lot. Mirra told police he ' called to Geary to "come on over and get warm. I've got a stove In here," and that Geary limped over and entered the shack. Suspicion Aroused He stayed there 34 hours while Mirra obtained food and discussed the Jail break. The attendant la-formed la-formed police after his suspicions were aroused when. In a conversation conversa-tion with the escaped ' priaonsr, Geary aaid, "If I caught those poor fellows I don't think I'd turn them In." - Mirra sent a parking lot customer cus-tomer after a policeman. Patrolman Patrol-man Tom Lewis walked up to the nuiy wit n arawn gun ana captured cap-tured Geary weary and hungry. Several bullets were taken from . Geary's pocket when he was searched. No gun was found. The capture ended a feverish three-day hunt by federal agenta, state police and local authorities, instructed to "shot to kll." But not a single, shot was fired when the three prisoners were seised, all surrendering sur-rendering meekly. |