PRISONERS ESCAPE
GUARDS CLEVERLY FOOLED. (Rec. 8.15 p.m.) New York, January 24. Twenty-one prisoners confined in a single cell in Detroit County prison dug their way to freedom through a brick wall by means of tools fashioned from a plumbing fixture and flattened buckets. They substituted dummies which smiled on the guards while the prisoners made a get-away. Two have already been captured. The search for the dthers is extending to Canada.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20395, 26 January 1928, Page 7
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