CONVICTS BREAK GAOL
DESPERATE GUN BATTLE THREE PEOPLE KILLED NEW YORK, March 6. (Received March 8, at 10 p.m.) Warden Eugene Reily, of South Dakota State Prison, at Sioux Falls, and two others were killed in a daring attempt to break prison by two long-term convicts. A prison guard was critically wounded and several other guards and bystanders suffered more or less seriously from gun wounds. The escaping convicts, Phil Ray, who is serving SO years for bank robbery, and Harold Carrier, serving 16 years for larceny, held up the guards with revolvers smuggled in by Carrier's brother. Taking Reily as a hostage they commandeered an automobile and were some two miles from the prison when they were overtaken by three carloads of guards and police. In a terrific gun battle which ensued Reily and Ray were killed, and a rancher who happened to be in the vicinity was killed by a stray bullet. Carrier was later captured and returned to prison.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22825, 9 March 1936, Page 10
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