U.S. STREET BATTLES

Northern Advocate, 5 December 1935, Page 7

U.S. STREET BATTLES

SEVERAL KILLED DESPERADOES BREAK GAOL FIVE RECAPTURED. (Received 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 4. Two attempts to liberate prisoners in widely separated parts of the country were attended by the death of several persons in hardfought, pitched battles in the

centres of two cities yesterday. One convict was killed and a civilian employee of the prison was bludgeoned to death, while three other convicts were wounded when five longterm convicts forced their way out of Massachussetts State prison, Boston. All five fugitives were recaptured dead or alive, within two hours, but only after, a wild chase by hundreds of policemen, prison guards and firemen, armed with rifles, riot guns and tear gas bombs. Six prisoners, members of the notorious Irish O’Malley gang of bank robbers, escaped from the Federal gaol at Muskogee, Oklahoma. They critically wounded the chief of detectives and fled in a commandeered car. One of the convicts, however, was fatally wounded by prison guards.