| Show BANDIT MAKES DARING ESCAPE roy gardner bold pacific coast holdup man breaks away from island prison FLEES DURING GAME leapt leaps for liberty through gap in barbed wire fence cut while bullets whistle about his head seattle wash hoy gardner western holdup man and bold mail robber known all along the pacific const coast as the cleverest ond and most slippery prisoner ever placed p faced under arrest Is again a free man lie escaped front from the government prison on mcneils I 1 stand island in puget sound amid a fusillade or of bullets twice in his fits criminal career before he ans finally placed behind the bars on the supposed impregnable mcneils BIc Nells island gardner had empei from the shrewdest men the lie government c could 0 uld set to guard him on the die way to tits his prison twice lie he joked with the roan man hunters huntera on ahorn lie he turned the tables and made prisoners in ills his place and twice lie ile laughed when he be was recaptured water races by prison lle 1810 so gardner come came to be the roost most closely watched prisoner in uncle sams most closely guarded jall jail guarded not by stone walls and 0 teel steel bars and armed guards alone but by the very conspiracy of natural forces it Is set on st desolate isle in puget sound with a wide stretch statch of water running fit at mill race speed between island and mainland gardner had been in prison for sli six weeks when on labor day the prisoners turned out to watch a baseball game between two teams of fellow prisoners they were in the prison yard cut off from liberty by a high barbed wire fence with towers at the corners in which eat watchful men with loaded rifles and orders to shoot to kill the game went on and the guards became interested in the play suddenly one of the players hit the ball 9 gardner kept on going terrific wallop for a home run attracting nil all eyes to tile the play the next instant gardner and two others leaped for or the fence gardner in the lead whipped out a pair of wire cutters rs ind snapped through tho the strands of 0 the barbed wire T two we companions Compan lona were shot As lie he leaped through the gap the guards in the towers began shooting bullets were whistling around tho the three fugitives gardeners gardners Gard GarO ners companions both former soldiers serving sentences for or vicious crimes committed while in the army fell one dead and the other seriously wounded gardner kept on going the break by gardner and the sight of the gap in tile the barbed wire fence turned the camless in the prison yard into wild animals frantic for liberty there wai vas a howl frona from throats throat s and the convicts started for the lie fence the guards had their hands nil full controlling them so BO Gard gardner sier mods mad good his escape |
