Show V - V THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 0 1935 TlfeNotorious Elusive TraituRobber Begs President Roosevelt to Free Him So He Can “Go Straight” as an Honest Electrician ‘ I S’ ft See Is the Roto-fill- s Gsmblisg ' Hssts Mtsltrt Win tbs t( Fens Broke Is Its Flt4 Frea lbs Empty Cbsir bU4AAx i — you look St tbs records of the ft moos (sr infamous) prisons down through tbs ages you will undoubt dip find their pises filled with detailed Recounts chronicling tbs various aU tempts successful or unsuccessful mads by prisoners held within the walls te -truck at San Diego of $07000 In negotl IP I HAD THE WING- Sable securities lie was sentenced to 25 Thai Fa moat Old Friiss Ballad rears at McNeil Island Federal Prison pi It Probably tbs Thews Soag sf Maty a lam ‘ located in Puget Sound He was placed f Aleatras lalaad They Certainly Would in custody of two Federal officers and Weed Wings I Escape Frost Thlt Prison handcuffed to two Chinese prisoners was i i started on his way te the Island Divert ' ing the attention S Marshal J B Holohart I promising to go straight escape J?!1 sf one ef the “G” men T1 nerr reach McNeil Island I’ll In our own decade Some of these erim Ha was recaptured after he jerked the other guard's gun from its another train robbery in Inals such as Gerald Chapman the no- holster and forced ona ef tha Chinese to get away again The authorities tak torious John Dlllinger and the equally unlock hit handcuffs while the aston- ing ho chances turned him over to Arizona sent to Atlanta ished officer stood by motionless cowed Deputy-MarshPenitentiary where Mulhall one of the most Publicised Raymond Hamilton acquired to escape agon reliable men on their staff That night lbs reputation of being men impossible by the gun in Gardner's hand Ha lsft the train at East Portland and at Castle Rock Washington Gardner - and finally ha was put in to hold confined for any protracted Federal waa missing for some weeks Finally he mad another incredible escape A hot 'Leavenworth length of time -i In this same Invincible group falls waa sighted when h went to visit his pursuit followed and at last Gardner was I Prison where he remained until Sep eht and placed wifhi" tha high walla tember of last year when he waa wif at Napa California A posse aur- -Roy Gardner last of the e lone shipped to Aleatras Island with Al Ca FtderAl priion rs wolf If this type of crimi founded him in A wooded Are near the ’ ® “ But that dldn’t-eto- p pal lives long enough at some time or town but tha elusive bandit slipped him from slipping pone and many other Federal prisoners Shortly after Gardner’s incarceration other he finds himself up against a "stir” through tha net and again want into away while attending a ball game in the prison he sent his amazing i that is Impossible to get away from hiding an Labor Day in 1920 He In the island jt prison yard Gardner's latest attempt to flee prison— ' The authorities next heard of Gardner seemed te have been born with a charmed appeal to President Roosevelt In his Alratraa Prison the American “Deril’i when the Southern Pacific Railroad re- life getting ever th high walla In a hail s jtter he sets forth the following reasons for his wish to be released Island" In San Francisco Bay— waa not ported that a trala had been held up be- of bullet that tore hug chinks in the “J respectfully prey that I he granted ay making a break physically but by tween Roseville and Newcastle by a stone work wherever they hit i a commutation from 25 to 20 a of years im- in form nation-widof man tha uttering fry A e despair search was started hut prisonment becausa a Roya description A a letter to President Roosevelt pleading poss answering ef 150 men set out on an intensive till Gardner managedto slip into Fan means U years snd 4 months sentence that ha ha releawd before it "is too lata search but once again tha notorious rob Francisco and Visit his Wife imprison meat Dolly to maka a success of my life her escaped Three daye later he was While under covet ha wrote many letters f "I neret killed hr Injured any Person Gardner first came to tha notice of picked up In a Roseville gambling house 'Z ive saltations with theunder-S folic and prison officials back in 1920 A quick trial ensued Gardner was senStrdint’ MWn! J tvorld never asset fated with gangsters Ye £8ide when he wna convicted of robbing a mail tenced to another 25 year at McNail ' be another that criminals commuted my crimes al heat-temp- al A ‘S's v 4 ted old-tim- train-robbe- 20-ye- ar 4r The Fames! Desperado Gardner Who la "Roy ' ' Appealing to Federal Authorities to Free Him From the American "Devil’ Island” At Rights Hie Loynl Wife Dolly Cairyiog Hir Fight Outsid tha Priaoa Walla to Help the Man She Loves wur i ti tad now feet single-hande- d sort I am ilitated after x 1 rehab it peers' Incat ceratioa J am sow SO years at age snd if I sm to male a success of hfs I must start pretty soon Through study snd work in prison I bsvt become aa expert electrician and hope te devote my hie to electrical work" r Aiding him in hi fight la hit loyal wif Doily at present a nurs in the nt Napa Btat Insane Asylum She feels that with her job and her husband’s newly acquired trad they can become respectable and upright citizens But whether or not the Federal a thorities will agree with them remains to be seen THE DEPRESSION HAD HIM DOWN TlIENj CAME TRIPLETS TO GIVE HIM V" ' i rn-Mh-v BOOST! u ti fc- - fe t I nr J Abandoned Schoolhouse But the Mlraculohh Babied Changed the Whole Bleak Outlook 4 M f Art Unhappy Family in art i A ' f I v HERE is THE HAPPY FAMILY Beatrice Papa and Mama KUar and tha Latest Additions to tha Family— Triplets At Shew Below Thole Arrival Was tha Evant Most Sortiy Naedad to Help ? tha Fathaf Baal tha Deprasstoa J - H- V 0 -V t r i - w i EXPLORERS BIG-TOWN is an proverb that sayi THERE rains without pouring months ago Walter Kiser af EomeiSet County Pennsylvania attested to the truthfulness of such a state-lueHe and his wlft end daughter Beatrice were living in an abandoned ichoolhouae atop a wind wept hill because ha waa out of work and couldn’t afford to pay rent elsewhere For twa yean ha had managed to support hia small fgmily by doing odd Jobs ber and there It waa a precarious existence but these g people managed to carry oo Then Mrs Kiser Informed her hus band she was expecting an addition to tha family Kiser told her not to worry j ha would take ears of everything He tried'harder and harder to earn a little more money with which to buy the frugal Old nt Presenting tha Wandering Wagataff Trip lata of Sait Lake City Tkair Adventure to tha Big City Cnnatd a Commotion That Wan’t Be Forgotten for n Long Long Time AND THEIR HOME The Abandoned ficheolhonia Atop t a Hill ha PtnftsyL vhia Which at Proaeat HisUt the Joyous Kitor Family Wind-Swep- the outside world two-year-o- hard-strivin- necessities that were Iraperativt now more than over Ho returned one day after look-in- g around for work to Had that hia wif had presented him with— triplet! Not even a doctor was present at the birth of tha babies- Neighbors from all ever the Surrounding countryside came to see the children Although quite poor them lelvea they brought many gifts to the marvelouo mother and her Infanta that went a long way toward dNpellihg the gioom of the perplexed father who couldn t understand how he would be able to provida for th mother and other ideas about the triplet than giw as the Wagstaff triplets out in Salt Laka eeneerainr the City did a short time ago wretched condition Jimmy Johnny and Joan Mrs Wag under which the taiTs triplet were the Kisers were forced objects of a frantic search carried on by to live and id their distracted mother harassed neighferent charitable bors and police when they staged an 1m Organizations be- - propiptu outing "of their own in the des-- s rt town The two little boy and the It fhn to send th sister decided they could See the world to on their own and left home hurriedly distresmtiT family F or many hours they wandered around The father was soon promised a Job with enough pay to be th big city without leering a trace Fiable to support hit extraordinary fam- nally the boy vrera fotind frolicking in one of the city’ parks and the little girl ily and he still insists that it never rains g in the heart of- - the without pouring but this time tha sky business district is lined with rainbows We Went to sea the bears Jimmy Now let’s hope thst when the triplets said when questioned by bis mother as to get older they won’t cause as much ex- where they had been “We go again citement to their mother and neighbor! added Johnny But Mrs Wagstaff has three-year-o- daughter along With the three new boys The neighbors ire comparing them with th Dionne quintuplets pointing out the the three boys ere as far as can be learned the heaviest and healthiest triplets ever born Shortly after word got round to IMS Bat ld window-shoppin- Ing hefi further cause for worry The day after their big adventure ah had them fingerprinted and took Other precautions to prevent their straying away again There’ nothing unueual in children straying away they’ve done it for ages Many a fictipn story starts out with the hero running away from horns t make his way in tie world and actually many 1 famous mah in public life got hie etart on the road ti success in the very same manner j The explanation for such aq aci is not unusual eithrrv There’ a venturesome spirit in the bo of every man but most of ua have certaw duties in society that have to be fulfill so this spirit remain dormant The wry young ordinarily brush these dutiek aside and In doing elicit both the angpr and admiration their elders t ' t ij r i i jfr u o' l H Vv r v ir f fts y t y |