OCR Text |
Show ARTHUR BURCH TRIES TO MAKE DEADLY JUMP , Prevented By Guard From Making Leap That Might Prove Fatal LOS ANOELES, Cal.. Jan. C When Arthur Lurch was taken from his 1 sll at the county jail today to go to the court room where ho Is on trial Charged with the murder of J. Beltoni Kennedy, be either elipped or tried tO ijutnp through the railing around thei I Jail corridor to the steel floor about' I 30 feet below. ! A deputy sheriff was escorting, i Burch to the jn 11 office to turn him! 'over to the court room deputies. The officer said Bnrch had deliberately tried to leap over the railing, but was prevented by a grip on his arm. Burch j said he .stumbled accidentally Numerous prisoner? who saw the1 occurrence expressed the belief that! Burch had tried to leap A fall such' as was narrowly eseipcd would prob-j ably result In serious injury or death, Jailers said. I |