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Show TIIE BULLETIN PATIENT CONVICT SHOWS INGENUITY IN PRISON BREAK , Spends Years in Preparation; Recaptured After Few Hours Freedom. Jackson, Mich. Day after day, week after week, and year after year, Stephen Kulemon was serving out a life sentence for murder lu the Jackson penitentiary. lie was a skilled workman nnd '.was assigned to the arts and crafta department of the grim prison. Outside was the free air; Inside was drnb monotony. To win that freedom Kales man needed tools. Surreptitiously he be- gan to take metals from the work-- " shop ; a bit of steel here, a bit of Iron there. From them he fashioned crude but efficient drills and files, saws, and a hammer. - Needs a Gun Makes Him One. A weapon was needed. Kaleman 'slipped ont of the arts and crafts . department a short piece of tubular ; steel. Night after night he worked Jon It until It was rifled. Another piece he made into a firing chain-jbe- r. With a knife be fashioned a .wooden stock and assembled the by attaching the barrel to the 'gun ' stock with stolen set screws. ' formed the tubing Copper Bullets he molded from shells. and cellulose, lead. Match-head- s soaked from the back of playing cards and some other highly material became his pow--: dcr. A solder cap impregnated with his fulminate' became a became angry at bis wire and hnrled s lamp at her. Igniting a bed. Nine other tenants In the houae were rescued from the biasing structure by firemen. The dead woman was Mrs. Louise negro, who beONeill, thirty-five,- .' and leaped came window. She from a third-floo- r died of a skull fracture and Internal injuries. Police sought the man they believed threw the lamp panic-stricke- n Ambulance Kills One, Injures Four Others Cincinnati. The siren of a Cincinnati life insurance ambulance sounded a death knell as It roared through a downtown street to the eld of a woman reported to have attempted suicide. As It passed a busy Intersection, it struck an automobile containing five negroes. AH fire were Injured, one fatally. Police finished the call the ambulance had started to answer and found Mrs. Irene Mice, thirty-fivrecovering from the effects of Inhaling a small amount of gaa. e, Disprove About Tobacco Theory War-Blinde- d The belief that smoklittle charm for the smoker In the dark that a smoker doesn't enjoy his weed unless he can see the smoke is disproved by a survey made nt St Dunstnn's Home for the Blind, where nearly London. ing holds 2,000 wnr-blinde- e .Ninety-fir- d men are housed. per cent are ardent smokers of pipes and cigarettes. Sam After months, Kaleman was ready !with his first plans.' He took one man into Ida confidence: It was 'John Rcliultz, also serving life for murder. Together, they gained entrance to the basement through steel trap doors in the floor, used for drainage.' Through a labyrinth ;of pipes, condulti, . and electric 'cables they made their way to a concrete air shaft which led to the .roof.' They chiseled their way Into Jtbe shaft through two sets of stee? sheeting and the concrete. ; . j Bulb Glows 28 Years Fort Worth. Texas. An electric light bulb has burned continuously for SC years In the'hallwuy between the stage and dressing rooms at Hip Palace theater. . Say Novice Easily Can Handle Novel Airplane Boston. Heres another step In the search for. a foolproof airplane. Its a novel craft being built In Boston university's department of aeronautics with the collaboration of Lieut Arthur G. R Metcalf. - - , Fits Ladder of SteeL Up . , . the-shaf- t at two-fo- ot Inter- vals' there, were bolts holding the for the concrete. reinforcement .Kaleman carefully fitted - their threads to pieces of Iron tubing he had stolen. Carefully he worked upward, screwing In the tubes ss ladder rungs" aa he progressed at night and removing them each day to avoid discovery. were finally Forty "rungs was meanwhile Schultz ready. and ont of the twine shop slipping weaving It into a rope. Then all was ready. They wired the basement door shut, entered the alrsbaft, and climbed upward, slowly bnt steadily, Kaleman setting the bars on the way. Schultz rope was thrown over the edge of the roof and they slid down, outside the prison walls to freedom! Bnt an alarm had been sounded. Kaleman was recaptured by two guards who bad trailed him eight miles through the snow. Schultz was seized after a few hours freedom in the home of a farmer whose wife had suspected him when he applied for food. She had telephoned the prison while he ate. The new plane will be able to land in a little more than half the distance needed by an ordinary plane, according to Lieutenant Metcalf. It will be flown as easily by a novice as a; skilled pilot files a conventional, plane. It. Is expected that a single afternoon will be enough to teach a beginner to handle the new ship with perfect safety. "This new plane will entirely eliminate the need for a higher developed sense of and flying instinct," says the lieutenant "This new development will not detract from the efficiency or speed of the plane." . . Youth Sells Dog So He Can Buy $2 Tag for It . Man Throws Lamp at Wife; Panic Costs Life : Cincinnati. One woman leaped to her death and two children were Injured, one seriously, when a roaa .. Montreal. OvWle Joyal was summoned to court for having no license for his dog. When he appeared lie triumphantly florjrlshed a new tag. . "Why dont you. put It on the dog, where It belongs?" asked the recorder. "I had to sell the dog to get the two dollars for the license," replied Joyal. The apeechlesa Judge waved Joyal out of court in- dicates. He likes mechanical toys best, and wouldnt bother with an Interview until he had had a set-twith his toy airplane. "I have a psychological Impulse," he said. Honestly, thats what hei said. "IPs easy, the answers are flashed to me. I can always see clearly what la in other peoples o Child Puts Teacher on pot; He Is Ambitious to Be a Parachute Jumper, minds" His future? "I," announced Jackie, "am going to be a para' chute Jumper." New York. To look at hes boy. Just the usual A mop of curly hair, a pink, chubby face. An overwhelming desire to jump over .things, stand on his head and take alarm docks apart. But Jackie Merkle, aged six. Is more than the average boy. He la one of the most amazing mind readers, "mental marvels," or whatever word you choose, who has ever visited skeptical New York. Jackie reads minds no one who has witnessed his work can donbt that He slips up now and then, of course, when reading directly the mind of his "subject" But he rarely clips up when the "subject's" thought Is first given to Jackies papa, Jacques Merkle, former circus acrobat happy-go-luck- y . Too Much SWEARS VENDETTA BUT GANG GETS HIM Sought Vengeance for Murder of Father; Is Slain. New York. Saliva tore Monaclno was a boy of five when bis father was murdered by enemies in the crowded lower East side. As he grew older Salvatore learned to understand the story of how hts father was lured out Into the night and killed. He swore a blood oath a vendetta against the slayers of his father. It was 2.1 years ago that the father died. Recently the body of Salvatore Monaclno, thirty, of Newark, was d.imped from an automobile In- Truth. Of course theres a code," said the skeptics when Jackie and papa visited a newspaper office. But the skeptics were convinced, often to their embarrassment for Jackie has a way of blurting out the simple truth when a "subject would much prefer a little white lie. The reporter who brought Jackie to the office doesn't believe In anything. lie was going to catch Jackie, all right all right Did I ever have an accident?" "Yon were wonndeil in the World war at St Fol," Jackie said promptly. That took the feet right from under the reporter, but he made an"Code. com-bustib- le , likes to eat, as his chubby form BOY IS MIND READER! AMAZES SKEPTICS to the gutter In Brooklyn. He had been bound with sash cord, Ills feet drawn up behind bis back with the cord nronnd his neck, so that he strangled himself by his own struggles. To the policemen who found the body, trussed up and still warm. It looked- - like another "racket mur- der." other attempt "Shall I marry soon?" "No." salil Jackie, "youre mar ried and you're got a child." WhereuiHin the reporter, who la and has, admitted defeat From reporter Jackie skipped to managing editor, and wasn't a bit overawed, lie told the editor his name, told him he had visited Ger many last summer, even named the towns, what Is more, pronounced them correctly, although he probably never heard of them before. He "read without seeing It an invitation to a banquet Professors hold that ' he has the vocabulary of a college graduate, boy of and his IQ la that of twelve. Hes always staggering his tutor, Miss Benia Anderson.' lie studies second grade lessons, and they are a snap. - i Teacher on Spot It was suggested that. ' ' If Jaeky felt lazy, he might read the an- swers in h!a teacher's mind. "I'm afraid of that, said Hiss Anderson, 'In a baffled way. Now and then Jackie dabbles In the future, but they keep him away from that, unless it results In reading a persons thoughts as to future. One Incident, ns related by Papa Merkle, makes good reading, anyway. Seems that Jackie was talking with Melvin rurvls. Department of Justice ace, who asked what was doing that day. "He's robbing a bank in Indiana, said Jackie. "Well what bank?" "Oh. thats too personal. I dont want to get bumped off." "And the papers carried a story that night," concluded Papa Merkle, "that Dillingcr bad robbed a South Bend bank." Jackie likes movies and girls pretty ones. lie hates to read, fie DU-ling- er Well dressed and wearing a new chinchilla overcoat, with $S In his pockets, Monaelna obviously was not the victim of robbery. His finger prints revealed he had a record arrested in 1933 on a charge of possessing counterfeit bills, sentenced to 18 months In federal prison. When detectives went to the relatives and frienda of the slain man they were told the story. Back from the penitentiary a few months ago, Monaclno had told acquaintances he had learned, In prison,' who 'killed Ills father. ' Before large groups of people, It was sald, be had boasted: "I know the man who ahot my father; I'm going to get him." Detectives went away with the 'belief that persons responsible for the death of the father had killed the son to protect themselves. Sheriff end Justice Fiecd Rockville, Conn. During a nonparking campaign Sheriff Fred Vinton nnd Justice Fitch Jones found police tags dangling from the steering wheels of their antomoblles. Roth paid flites of S3. Burglars Pay Visit; Leave Baby Behind Macon, Ga. A new type of burglary has developed here. Mrs. Marvin Maxwell returned home from church and discovered her hoime Imd been broken into during her absence. A tliorongh search revealed nothing missing. Instead, one article had been a added baby girl. She called police to come and get the foundling, but by the time they had arrived she had three-day-ol- d became attached to the child. Isn't she a darling?" the woman cooed to police. She finally refused to let the ofiicers take the Infant from her. 1 |