COWARDLY CONVICTS.
A SHORT-LIVED ESCAPE.
GIRL USED .AS SHIELD-
RUNNING FIGHT ENSUES.
RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.
Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable. (Received January 21, 5.30 p.m.)
New York, January 21. Details of the affray at McAllister gaol (Oklahoma), in which three convicts were shot while trying to escape, show that the three convicts at the end of the day's work by a ruse approached a gaoler, whom they felled. They then seized his keys and rushed to the prison gates, shooting all who attempted to intercept them, the other convicts in the meantime shouting encouragement. The mutineers seized a girl operator at her telephone, and held her in front of them to deter the guards from firing.
The warders, however, fired and wounded the girl. The mutineers still held her before them till they reached and unlocked tho gates. Then they jumped into a waiting buggy and whipped the horses into a gallop. The guards on tho walls again fired, while others pursued on horseback.
During the running fight that ensued, a horse was killed, and the bodies of the three daring convicts were found riddled with bullets on the floor of the vehicle.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15514, 22 January 1914, Page 7
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192COWARDLY CONVICTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15514, 22 January 1914, Page 7
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