Show lEVEA CROOK OFFICER I IN APARTMENT l Glasses Pave Way to Freedom FreedomS ML STILL S ILL AT LIBERTY ft Previously Deviously 1 y E Escaped From Prom Hospital 15 TI 11 M. M Royce Boyce 40 c convict of ot the J 8 Laz ah tate state prison escaped from iJ J guard ard Friday afternoon near r fourth South and Second East streets it became known Saturday Royce who is said b by the police tIbe io o be e one of the most notorious loyce robbers bers 1 ers they have come In contact 1 during recent years was sentenced sen sen- to the prison in September I 1924 92 to a a. term of from five to Jears ears I He Be was arrested In April 1924 y ly Officers Arthur Merrick and J. J r. r Ferrin and Detectives B. B II Seager and R. R L. L Eddington Eddinton and to pilfering dozens of while the they were parked pared The streets in the business dis- dis J ric ZOOT OT OOT DISCOVERED T e e officers were led by Royce o 0 Is apartment in the LaClede Second e South and Fourth East streets tr ts where they found scores of articles that had been n from automobiles and downtown down to town stores Valuables from the latter places were obtained by shop shop- lifting HUng n c admitted to the officers hat he had been in prison before was transferred to the county there seized with an acute i of appendicitis The pris- pris i iner ner r was taken to the county hos- hos rt ital l arid aid operated upon S fAt At midnight and while attending and nurses still thought in Im helpless as the result of the I ppE tion Royce got out of bed and In his pajamas A nurse ached hed a a. fire Ire escape window In Ia InTe me qi to see the taillight of an auto- auto bIle carry th the prisoner patient w way y ONCE BEFORE r more than two weeks offieL eL ers of the sheriffs sheriff's force and po- po o o- o H yee very i iy y rooming house about the city was finally tracked through a and rearrested Several everal days ago Royce Roce broke his and a guard had to take ta downtown to get the glasses glasse eLred Cn n the return trip after fter ting the spectacles spectacles' from the re- re air aTi- m man n Friday Royce asked 1 rd Michael A. A Ross to take him olsee is mother and brother at 77 Second East street Ross corn corn- lied with the request and aS s they ea cached hed the landing of the stairs ing to the second floor of the thep p house where the sup- sup oi oid d rela relatives lived Royce Hoce dodged a doorway and escaped according according ac- ac cording to the report of the Indent Ind mci- ent em given g by bv Warden Valden Davis moss oss immediately telephoned the rison asking for two men men to help search for Royce The three then searched the premises failed to locate Royce Royce Royce- |