ASYLUM INMATES ESCAPE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 24 July 1923, Page 5

ASYLUM INMATES ESCAPE.

WARDERS ATTACKED. NEIGHBOURING RESIDENTS ALARMED. VER PBE3S ASSOCIATION —OOPTRIOHT New York, July 23. According to a message from Chester (Illinois), armed posses recaptured all but eleven of the twentysix insane criminals, many of whom are murderers, who escaped from the Illinois Criminal Insane Hospital. Two guards were stabbed and one maniac was shot dead in the battle preceding the escape. Seventy-five inmates were in an open-air cage for exercise, when they attacked the guards and wrenched the bars apart with w-ooden benches. Other guards who rushed to the scene prevented wholesale escapes, but twenty-six eluded pursuit overnight. causing panic in the surrounding neighbourhood, all houses being barricaded.