INSANE CRIMINALS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 July 1923, Page 5

INSANE CRIMINALS.

ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.

SY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGH7 Received July 24, 8.55 a.m. NEW YORK, July 23. According to a message from Chester, Illinois, armed posses recaptured all but eleven of the 26 insane criminals, many of whom are murderers who escaped ? m m IllilK»s criminal insane hospital. Two guards were stabbed and one manaic was shot dead in a battle preceding the escape. Seventy-fivve inmates were in an open-air cage for exercise when they attacked the and wrenched the bars apart with wooden benches. Other guards who rushed to the scene pi evented wholesale escape, but 26 eluded,pursuit over night, caus-, ing a panic in the surrounding i\e:<?hbourhood. all houses being barricaded —Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.