PRISONERS ESCAPE
DIG THROUGH BRICK WALL (Rec. January 25, 7.50 p.m.) New York, January 24. Twentv-one prisoners confined in a single cell in the Detroit County Prison dug their way to freedom through a brick wall by means of tools fashioned from a plumbing "fixture and flattened buckets. Thev substituted dummies, which smiled on the guards while the prisoners made their getaway. Two have already been captured, and search for the others is extending to Canada.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 100, 26 January 1928, Page 9
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