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Show Gill KILLED IN DARING BREAK INMATES AT OREGON PENITENTIARY PENITEN-TIARY RAID ARSENAL AND SECURE ARMS Governor Is Glad Notorious Killer's Career Is Ended; National Guard Is Ordered Held In Readiness For Search Salem, Ore. "Oregon Bert" Jones, nortorious higywayman and prison breaker, is dead after slaying two prison pri-son guards and three of his fellow convicts are being trailed by several posses as the result of a sensational riot and escape from the Oregon state penitentiary. In the first violent dash for liberty liber-ty from the Oregon prison since the famous escape of Harry Tracy and David Merrill in 1902, Jones led Ellsworth Ells-worth Kelly, James Willos and Tom Murray in a raid on the prison arsenal ar-senal and an attack on the guards. The nortorious career of "Oregon Bert" ended when Joljn Davidson, guard shot him just as he was dropping drop-ping off the prison wall. A few moments mo-ments previously he had fatally shot two guards, J. M. Holman and John Sweeney. His three companions seriously ser-iously injured Lute Savage, guard, and James Nesmith, turnkey, and escaped es-caped in a taxi commandeered from the state hospital. The four convicts remained in their cells at supper time, cut a hole through the roof and dropped to the main yard over the administration building. They dashed for the arsenal, arsen-al, where they obtained four rifles and several revolvers, after beating Nesmith badly about the face. Leaving the building, theyopened fire on the guards in the first tower north of the entrance. Guards said Jones shot Holman and Sweeney while the others escaped over the wall as they fired at other guards. They kidnapped C. V. Ivitte, former attendant at the hospital, and escaped escap-ed in the taxi driven by Wiley Zinn. Later Ivitte and Zinn were released after being used as protection against bullets. The convicts took all of the clothing cloth-ing of the two men and $410 belonging belong-ing to Ivitte. Zinn said that Murray was wounded by the guards. Warden A. M. Dalrymple was in his office when he saw Murray in the yard. He attempted to lock up the arsenal, but was cut off by two of the convicts, who had entered from the south entrance. Having no gun in the office he dashed for his house just outside the entrance and obtained obtain-ed a shotgun. Orders were issued to the national guard to mobilize and hold themselves them-selves in readiness to aid in the search for the three escaped prisoners. prison-ers. Hundreds of persons searched the district near Salem during the early part of the night without finding find-ing any trace of the men. |