Show u CONVICT GAINS HIS US LIBERTY DURING BLIZZARD Cuts Through Wall of Cell With Needles Successfully Successfully Success Success- Successfully fully Escapes RAWLINS INS Wyo May Bert Bert Lofton Lotton considered one of ot the most recalcitrant Inmates of ot the Wyoming state iary engineered an escape from the death eath house hO more mora daring and sensational than han that staged by Vanishing Bill Carlisle the notorious train robber who eluded armed posses for tor nearly a month be Core before his recapture Lofton Lotton left tho the prison s sans ns shoes stockings lockings and hat and clad only In n thin striped convict garb while a snow- snow storM accompanied by cold high winds wind raged aped William Smith another convict escaped es- es aped with with Lofton but was taken talen before he ie got outsider outside the great gray walls tf cf t the he the institution MANNER OF OF ESCAPE In the death cell to which both Lofton Lotton and nd Smith had been because of f their meanness Is II a n lavatory The Th lavatory atory drain through a hole holo inthe Inthe In Jn the ie hard steel wall wail of ot the cell cell which hole was covered by a a. sheet of ot malleable steel Against laboriously s1 this ISs scratched softer f e steel te with covering needled Lofton that I he le had stolen from the prison shirt fac- fac lac-I lac tory ory When he became wea weary Smith re relieved relieved re- re eved him at the task tak Eventually the needle cut through the tho softy steel and the plate date was separated from from- the walls of ot ofle the le cell The convicts tore the pipe apart removed the plate that had encircled l I It 70 d f and nd crawled through the to a corridor that led from the death house to o the main part of ot the prison PICKS LOCK WITH NEEDLE Still using the needle Lofton picked the i lock of ot the huge huga steel door th that t barred barred his progress and found himself free tree of ot the death cells cell's restrictions Nn- Nn observed Lofton and Smith scaled three tiers of cells and gained access to the prison attic Breaking the concrete and slats of ot the roof root of ot the building they emerged Into open air on top of or tho the pr prison b building iI With a spring K blizzard cutting bUzzard cutting wind and stinging snow snow raging raging the tha pair Jumped from the roof root of ot the to the ground n below utilizing U n some e bedding e obtained a in the rite Wit attic lt to soften o t the Impact impact Im im- pact wi with th the frozen ground Pinging a bar of ot Iron Lofton Lotton b bent beat nt it into a hook hool tied It to a piece of ot rope and cast th the hook to the top of ot the prison wall Climbing the rope Lofton Lorton dropped twelve feet to freedom Just lust as guards arrived and captured Smith DISAPPEARS IN IN STORM Immediately news of of the prisoners prisoner's escape was spread throughout the sur- sur r country but from the moment the storm swallowed the hatless shoeless shoeless shoeless shoe shoe- less and convict no trace of ot him has been discovered His successful escape parallels th that t of William Carlisle Carlisle- who made his way to I freedom by hid hiding InK In a box I of ot shirts being shipped from the prison fa factory tory but Was later captured after arter be- be beIg being be be- ing Ig shot by a deputy sheriff In one of the most sensational man hunts WyomIng Wyoming Wyom Wyom- ing has e ever k known Lofton t was s serving Y g a year five fIve sen- sen for tor grand larceny and because of ot his general cussedness was confined Inthe inthe in inthe the death house t I |