Show MAKE URN AK ESCAPE PLOT j lONG MATCHED HATCHED BY Di BOLD SIX ui Collapsible Ladder Kept Hidden In Chest for II Right Opportunity FARMER HELD UP lone One of Desperate Prison Prisoners ers Has Utah Police Record PHILADELPHIA July 14 14 SiX today made mad one of ot the th roost most daring escapes in the Hie history ot of the Eastern state penitentiary and Ithe up to tonight had not been caught Several hours alter atter the escape sl sI six I ryn wearIng prison garb larb rode Into I I Ogden Delaware In tn a red motoi moto motorcar I I car hol held up a tanner and ind robbed of ot OO and nd a a quantity ot of o clothIng With one exception all the es- es escaped escaped es escaped prisoners were weN front from They rhey nete ero ner i Louts Louin A A of ot Reading brought to the he jail two tracks 1 ago shooting a l guard In the Bead nead- Read lag Ing jail Thomas J Gillian serving 10 to lj 11 yearS veara tor for complicity In the th hold bold holdup hold up up ot of a bank runner In December 1921 21 James Drown Brown known as thel Handsome Bur Burglar lar serving 20 O years James J 1 L Malone falone serving 18 1 years or highway robbery George Geore Geo g Bro Brown n cr Ing tl fie tl e to 12 years for larceny James Williams said sald to have a police record tor for larceny and nd other STORY or OP rsc re Prisoners and guards at the Prison IMson told how the six hid plotted thel escape Some of ot the prisoners acre ere employed In the carpenter shop hop and in the tb course ot of their thell York work they made m dc a II cedar died chet mor more than six feet long lone Into which they a a collapsible ladder thit th thad been put together from time to This chest evidently c locked ns as Its Us contents were neer ne er discovered discovered ered red I When ben the tb appointed I hour came the chest was Baa carried to the prison yard by the com convicts s This they were vere abl able to do as they were Ire mom mom- mem of the th police police gan gang cane whose duty It was as to keep the prison clean GUARD lt h OUT OtT W While lle the ladder was nas being put together Charles Toomey serving time gei time fern tOIl tor a bank banh embezzle embezzle- embezzlement I ment In hl this city passed b by and tried to dissuade the men from es- es es He was backed a awall awall wall at the point of ot a gun tun Then Thena a guard euard appeared and ho he ws s knock knoel- knocked knocked ed ld out with the butt end of ot a pistol All AlI six prisoners climbed up the wall and another guard was en- en encountered encountered en encountered countered o 0 o and locked In the watchman's tower on the The rhe ers dropped two ropes the ends of ot hl which which h were fastened 1 to ton foe n n- n wall and then they slipped to the street They tried to steal a rioted closed automobIle nearby nC n Jut hut found It locked A sm motor truck t vim U Int- Int MCW at that antI and the was forced tn t abandon It The convicts con abandoned tho na ma- machine ma machine chine an and commandeered another a halt half a a mile away They acre w ere last seen crossing crossing- Girard avenue bridge In park parl before they Were reported In Delaware LouIs Ed Edwards ards known knoY also as Zanies James Edwards Edwarda and Arthur stew stew- stewart Stewart St w- w wrt art rt Lawrence dark Clark and James st has hs bONi been arrested In a a num- num r num-fx-r l er of cities citie including Daton Dat Da ton Ohio Salt Lake City and W Wash Washington sh ington Inston |