DANGEROUS MANIACS ESCAPE.
MURDERERS AT LARGE IN NEW YORK. W KITED P/IKJW ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELF. GRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) '{Received December sth, 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 4. Six men, the most violent of the criminal insane imprisoned in the State institution at Manhattan, including two murderers and two dangerous pyro maniacs, escaped and are in New York to-niglit, following a daring delivery arranged by an inmate who some time ago escaped. He returned yesterday with three gunmen, who imprisoned seven guards, and released his companions. The wife of one of the maniacs received telephone calls from the men today. The murderers among the escapees have several killings each to their records, while among the pyromaniacs is one who for fifteen years before he was apprehended was known to the police as a setter of fires.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 17
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