WOMEN AS SHIELD.
CONVICTS BREAK GAOL. SMUGGLED PISTOLS USED. (United Press Association—Copyright). NEW YORK, February 17. A message from Granite, Oklahoma, states that 21 long-term convicts effected a daring escape from the State Reformatory there while a group of visitors, including women and children, were inspecting the institution. All the convicts were equipped with smuggled pistols, and, partially using the visitors as a shield, forced thenkeepers to open a gate. In an exchange of fire one of the keepers, was killed and three convicts *-ere wounded and captured. The remainder made good their escape in stolen automobiles.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 110, 19 February 1935, Page 5
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