FIRE FIENDS ROAN CITY
INSANE CRIMINALS TREED • ■ GUNMEN OVERCOME GUARDS p TWO MURDERERS ESCAPE VIOLENT MEN IN NEW YORK By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright, ■Rec. 10 p.m. New York, Dee. ♦. Six men of the most violent of the criminal insane type, imprisoned in the State institution at Manhattan, including two murderers and two dangerous fire fiends, escaped and are in New , York to-night following a daring delivery arranged by an inmate who ? - some time ago escaped and returned yesterday with three gunmen who imprisoned the seven guards and released .his companions. i; The wife of one of the maniacs today received telephone calls from the men, who for the most part are depressive maniacs. The murderers among the escapees have several killings each to their records, while among the pyromaniacs is one who for IS years was. known to the police as a setter of fires •before he was apprehended.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 7
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