ESCAPE BY CONVICTS
SUCCESSFUL CART UR E. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Five convicts escaped from San Quentin prison, California, beating and seriously injuring a warden. One of tho felons was slain by a posse, and tire four others were captured, one being wounded.. Members of the prison board, one of whom is also reported to bs injured, were seized by tire convicts who, having got out of their cells, were hiding in tho prison grounds. They waited until the officials went to tho warden’s house for luncheon, following a conference on prison affairs. Then the convicts, using the members of the board as shields against gun fire, fled with them in an automobile.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 7
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113ESCAPE BY CONVICTS Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 7
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