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Show - SMUGGLED GUN AIDS PRISONERS IN JAIL BREAK . i Fourteen Desperate Criminal Crimi-nal Effect Escape From Denver Baatile . Dur-A Dur-A ing Height of Storm rKN"VKfl. Coin. April SI. ' Taking advantage of a heavy Mnnwatonn which blew up late yesterday and waa continuing: today, to-day, fourteen nrisone.ru In the county jail early last night held, up guards with a gun smuggled fc- in to them, locked them In a cell block and mad their escspe. On . leter aur rendered voluntarily to the police. The others were at I II at large today. Treading the break i were "Slippery DelV Hanlnn. elu-, sirs Taut bandit, and hia two companions, Herman V. Herbert and Thomas Kd wards, alt- three convicted la at week of highway robbery and awaiting sentences of sj from I en yea r to II f . Of t h other only one waa a minor offender, of-fender, the real being criminal awaiting trial or sentence for rape. wifrn1"r' rr h-gu sr r--'-r l'Yft n k Cam eron. race n 1 1 y a r -rested : Omaha aa a member of ; an alleged interstate burglary ring. f u one of the group. . Reports from eastern Colorado enrly today wer that an automobile, auto-mobile, believed to contain four of the men, amonar, them H union. hd been pursued and fired on by n sheriffs posse, but had escaped. Thy were traveling- east along the Lincoln highway. Eff APE PLANNED. Han Ion. who earned hia nh'k-. nh'k-. name "STTppery" from hia elusive-na. elusive-na. apparently had been planning a getaway for some time. Kven during the trial ho appeared unconcerned, un-concerned, and merely smiled when convicted. The break rima at C:30 laat night, shortly after supper and iWure the priaonera had been t weked In their cella for tiie night. I f C.aude Oldham, a federal pria- titer held in ihe 11. called A. f .', I'.itt-hit gs, lobby gunrd. and asked permission to take a dili to the. ffice. Hutching compiled. A a ) he opened the two at eel oVtora In-' crvening he found hlmaelf looking 'own the barrel of a levolver. f vif II nlon At the trigger end. I . Tjic lir-ftperado. with the ohera ' v-'.tn 'raped at hia hak. forced IluifiiltiKK to prore,i throuch lhe 1-iitby and unlock n tlrrd steel d-irjr that opna into the jail offire. j In n adjoining room were Harry i I,:vjnKton. acting warden, and treorre Connolly, a guard. Hearing the rnmmuun the two came out, only to tmm the same revolver. y "I don't want tc kill you. Harry," aid tha dapper Hiinlon. "but you hnd better snrk 'em up" Relieving l,i vinniiton of his keys, the escaping prtnonern then forced ihe three ftuariia into a cell, locked the dior and ,made a haMy exit : trough a fourth el eel dtior that i lvt.d to the , otiier lobby. No M'inr had the fourteen dashed nut into tiio street thttn the guard 1 locked In the tell begun calling for1 tiie po'lre. many of Hie remaining! pii'oners .loming in their shouts, i The restiltitig commotion st-1 tr.ied the attention of resident it'i'OJ(s th street from th Jh 11. j who turned in several a terms to te Mii- A riot cnll resulted M :i:u evfry avaiiahle man w;is sent out into the storm with order to i d up every auspicious char-e char-e p. L"AVE IN AUTOMOBILE. lt:,prioiiet1 guards were released from tit' veil In which thy had 1 n lochi d by Mrs. Jenriie Ray. Jim tron, wno was iilone on the f-juiih fln,r when the break oc- -tirr'l. They immediately rounded round-ed up the reinn inline priaoners and he -keil uJ to w-e who had es- J caucd. In the meantime the three rliwr- lei'ders in the e-.cipe plot h.id 1 oni'OVd un autoniohlle nearby, nkriff itJi them a fourth prisoner pris-oner believed to be Joe Rustfo, ani'ther liiRlinavmmi. and drove. ay at terrific speed. It Is this I f cat. police believe which was sighted after midnight near Genoa. t'oio apparently making toward Biirlincton. Colo. Deputy sheriffs at l,imon. Colo fired several shots nt the machine but did not succeed In halting It. A posse immediately J started In pursuit. |