Show INSANE BREAK BREAKOUT OUT OF JAIL Criminal Convicts Stab I Guards and Batter Way to Freedom CHESTER III Ill July tiP 23 23 A W AT T Twenty tree enty criminally Insane convict convict- hero Iro Vi fro at largo large in this vl- vl vi vicinity today toll following owing a wholesale jaIl dehl delivery ry at the th state stat hospital for tor the criminal insane insano here hera Iero In whIch one on of ot the tho convicts was slam slain two guards ard were stabbed ser ser- ser seriously sly and other guards and off off- off l- l crolls b beaten Many of those thoRO who t e escaped gaped had been committed to tiro tho in- in on their picas pleas ot of insanity when charged with mur mur- murders murders murders ders In various parts of ot the state stat tati Numerous posses I Including 50 guard of the tho Southern Illinois penitentiary police pollee officers o and cit cit- citizens cit citizens Izes scoured a thick wooded sec eec sectIOn sec section tion teon north of ot Chest where most Of the fugitives are believed to bo be hiding Ch Chester If tel a town of ot 1000 population population tion and farmers residing ding nearby received n news ws of ot the escape with terror Within a short abort while tho streets were ivere deserted and most of If the male residents remained awake all night guarding their homes with firearms BILLED XU BY GUARD The 1 dead iad d convict is William Jackson a n negro sentenced In Chicago Chi Chi- ChiCILO cago CILO for tor murder He was shot by a guard euard shortly after he h and other othel inmates made mad their escape Seven other convicts were report report- reported reported ed Id recaptured I The TK delivery occurred when 27 I convicts who were in the exercise J yard lard ard a n steel sl wire stockade sensed a moment when their guards were relaxing and pounced upon them Ten nards guards who were with the th men n In the enclosure were overpowered The oun wounded ted guards aro James Denny nn and Ralph DIlday After overpowering the guards guard the c convicts m used a wooden bench as a a ram and hammered a bole hole through tho stockade through the men poured and fled in all 11 directions n nn |