PRISONERS ESCAPE
GUARDS OVERPOWERED
DISPUTE BETWEEN STATE
GOVERNORS
(Received September 4,10.20 a.m.)
NEW YORK, September 3,
Eight members of a chain-gang at Atlanta, Georgia, escaped after overpowering two guards, and are believed to be heading for Massachusetts wearing their prison uniforms and shackles. This is the climax to a dispute between Governor Rivers of Georgia and Governor Hurley of Massachusetts owing to Mr. Hurley's refusal to extradite a negro escapee. Mr. Rivers angrily retorted, offering to place chaingangers oh parole on condition that they spend their parole in Massachusetts. The first man released on this undertaking left yesterday. A flood of applications for parole, including four murderers, is being considered. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 9
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110PRISONERS ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 9
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