Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 1 | Criminal Insane Inmates Escape; One Person Shot

CRIMINAL -INSANE INMATES ESCAPE; ONE PERSON SHOT CHESTER, 111., April 5. An armed posse is scouring the Mirsissippi river bottom, south of Chester, in pursuit of eight inmates of the Chester state hospital for criminal insane who parti cpa ted in the delivery at the institution late Saturday night when fifteen men made their escape after assaulting and overpowering the night keeper. Hospital officials said the men who escaped were considered con-sidered among the most dangerous danger-ous of inmates. Seven of the men were captured cap-tured yesterday and last night and returned to the hospital. One of the number, Harry Stork, of Rock Island, 111., was probably fatally shot when he resisted captur . j