PRISON BREAKERS
AN INGENIOUS RUSE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 24. Twenty-one prisoners who wore confined in a single cell in Detroit County prison, dug their way to freedom through a brick wall by means of tools fashioned from plumbing fixtures and flattened buckets. They substituted dummies, which smiled on the guards, while the prisoners made a getaway. Two have already been captured. The search for the others is extending to Canada.
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Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 4
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73PRISON BREAKERS Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 4
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