SHOOTING OF ESCAPED CONVICTS
Arkansas Revelations REVIEW OF PENAL SYSTEM e FOLLOWS Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received July 20, 7.25 p.m.) New York, July 19. A Little Rock (Arkansas) message states a complete review of the State penal system has from the killing a week ago of a 22-year-old escaped woman convict by guards who overtook her at a farmhouse where she was aUegedly attempting to obtain an automobile at pistol point. The girl, who had a bad record, and five previous escape attempts, was said by the guards to have tried to shoot them on apprehension. Tt is disclosed, however, that under the present penal administration, which is only 18 months old, 19 convicts who tried to escape have been shot and killed. Two guards are now held, one on a first degree murder charge, and the other charged with being accessory before the fact
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 252, 21 July 1934, Page 7
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