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Show $ , & O V V V r V TRAP WILSON AND PALS AT FRIEND'S HOME Escaped Prisoners Submit Peaceably to Sheriff's Posse NOW BACK IN JAIL Peace Officer's 'Hunch') Proves Correct in Recapturing Re-capturing Trio LOS ANGELES. Calif.. Oct. IS. j The three jail breakers. Herbert Wll-BOn, Wll-BOn, former evangelist, mall bandit' and convicted murderer; Adam Blas-7.yk. Blas-7.yk. convicted murderer, and Guido Splgnola. convicted robber, were recaptured re-captured here toTlay after 24 hours' liberty They were taken without a struggle In a home of an ex-convict. The fugitives were taken In a house not far from where the automobile which they had stolen was abandoned. abandon-ed. Information of their presence there was obtained early today by a I deputy sheriff, and Sheriff William I A Traeger and a posse of deputies I surrounded the rcsidenco and affected affect-ed the capture with the same sud-denness sud-denness that the trio had surprised the Jailers In their liberty break Tuesday morning. M UE i SE IF PliANS The capture resulted from the use of plans Wilson had formulated for concealment after the attempted break last April, which was frustrated by sheriff's deputies and In which Herbert Cox. partner of Wilson, was killed. Wilson was convicted of murder as a result. The trio was captured In the place where they had planned to hldo last April. PEACE VBLV st rutl N OERfi The same sangfroid the former evangelist hAd exhibited since he was known to the authorities was present In Wilson's greeting to the captors. There was no confusion and Wilson and his fellow fugitives peaceably surrendered when they saw the largo 'number In the cordon around the 'house. Wilson's first question was 'concerning the condition of Turnkey I Henry Purrler, whom he rendered unconscious un-conscious In the break Tuesday, ho smiled and expressed satisfaction I when he was Informed Purrler was not seriously hurt. sin RIFF REW UtDED. Sheriff Traeger learned In April that Wilson planned to visit the home of Tom Garwood, registered In police records and known as a pal of Wilson. Wil-son. Immediately after the escape the sheriff put tho home under surveillance. sur-veillance. Tho reward camo early today to-day when watchers saw three men 'slink Into the home The .-le-rlff was notified and a heavy posso rushed there, surrounding the place. , "Wo planned to set away without hurting anyone." was the only com in. nt In connection with the Jail break that would be made by Guido Splgnola. Splg-nola. who was convicted of the rob-I rob-I bery of J83.000 from the Standard OH company Adam BlSSSyk, alias Ward, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Nan-, Nan-, v M W'heelock. an aged woman who 1 was strangled here, was silent. snows SELF CONTROL Wilson, former preacher of Brownsville. Browns-ville. Ore. and traveling evangelist, former resident and native of London. mt showed the same remarkable self-control that he has manifested during tho trial and during the pre-j pre-j vious Jail break, according to Sheriff Treager. Ho saw the crowd outside, and saw that wo had men with guns ln-! ln-! side and he came to the door smiling, smil-ing, He sheriff said. Thus another chapter was added to I the history of the es-evangellst who w;is followed across the continent last year by federal agents who sought jh;m In connection with postal truck land department store robberies in I w hich the loot aggregated more thani la million dollars, officers said CALLED MASTER CRIMINAL HH record Blnce then has won tor him from the authorities the title., i "master criminal.'" He demonstrated thai the county Jail iMolatlon was no bar to any things that ho wanted In the shape of pistols or other wants. An elaborately planned Jiil break last' i.prll was thwarted only by advance' Information getting into the hands of the sheriff, and deputies were sta-tlonod sta-tlonod at vantage points on Sunday morning when Eddie O'Brien and Herbert Her-bert Cox, arrested on the same charges as Wilson, emerged from the Jail wlthj (Continued on Page Two) TRAP WILSON AND PALS AT FRIEND'S HOME (Continued from Pago One.) AVllson. rcBrien led the way and was captured In a court corridor. Immediately Imme-diately th err after, on the bridge of sighs from the Jail, which O'Brien had just crossed, B shot rang out and dep. titles found Cox dying with Wilson standing over him. This led to Wilson Wil-son s conviction on a charge of murder. mur-der. A candy box was delivered at the jail last Saturday containing a pistol believed intended for Wilson, n fell hitc, the hands of the jail attach.-, But vuison. Blassyk and Bplgnola were armed with pistols when nt , 4E p clock Tuesday morning they attacked at-tacked throo jailers, seized the keys and escaped J |