Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-05 | Page 1 | Convicts Wreck Prison and Flee over Walls

uu iCONVICTS WRECK PRISON AND FLEE OVER WALLS j S A NT A IE. N. M.. Feb. 5. After! slipping away from the guards, going to the engine room, where thoy ren-' do-. ,i the engineer unconscious by inking him over the head with aj plckhandle, smashing the electric switch board with a sledge hammer.' putting the lighting system out of commission, and overpowering a watchman, four convicts In the siatoj penitentiary last night scaled the prison pris-on walls by means of a ropo ladder and escaped In tlie darkness. Tho names of the men were: Hoy Wilcox, serving two and one-half one-half to three, years for grand larceny. Robert Tucker, serving two to three years for assault; Edward Carr, serving serv-ing two to three years for larceny of an automobile, and Ix-o Allen. Boring five years foi assault with Intent toj kin. Guards und bloodhounds are searching search-ing for the convicts. oo