Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1923, Page 25

1 S ESCAPE PRSON BY SMUGGLEDROPE Overpower Guards, Climb n Wall, Steal Truck-and Flee ! Philadelphia for Delaware. By the Associated Press; PHILADELPHIA, July 14.—Six convicts today made one of the most daring escapes in the history of the eastern state penitentiary, and up to tonight had not been caught. Several hours after the escape six men wWeur- ing prison garb rode into Ogden, Del., in a red motor car, held up a farmer land robbed him of $200 und some clothing. With one exception all the escaped DPrisoners were from Philadelphia. They were: Louls A. Edwards of Reiding, brought to the prison two weeks ago, after shooting & guard in the Read- ing jail. Thomas J. Gillian, serving five to ten years for complicity in a hold-up. James W. Brown, known as the “handsome burglar,” serving twenty Years. James L. Malone, serving eighteen Years for highway Tobbery. \ George Brown, serving five to twelve years for larceny. James Williams, said to have a po- llce record for larceny and other crimes. Plot of Escape. Some of the men were employed in the carpenter shop, and In the course of their work they made a cedar chest more than six feet long, into Which they smuggled a collapsible ladder that had been put together from time to time. This chest ev dently was locked, as its contents Were never discovered. When the appointed hour came the Ghest was carried to the prison yard by several convicts in the plot. This they were able to do, as they were members of the “police gang,” whose duty it was to keep the prison clean. +They worked quietly and swiftly. While they were putting the ladder together, Charles Toomey, serving time for a $300,000 bank embezzle- ment, tried to dissuade them from escaping. He was backed against a wall at the point of a gun. Then a guard appeared and he was knocked out with the butt end of a pistol. Several of the convicts kept pulling ! up the ladder while this was going on. On the wall another guard was encountered, overpowered and locked the watchman's tower. Cnpture Motor Truck. The prisoners dropped two slender Topes, the end of which were- fast- ened "to the wall, and then they slipped to the street. They tried to «teal a closed automoblle nearby, but found it locked. But at that moment a small auto truck came along and the driver was persuaded to abandon it under the influence of several pistols. 5 Reports differ as to whether three ©of the men left the vehicle or wheth- er they stuck together. In any event they abandoned the machine and commandeered another, a half mile away. They were last seen crossire a bridge In Fairmont Park e’emre they were reported in Dela- are. Hns Many Aliases. Louls Edwards, known also as James Edwards = Sanders, Arthur tewart, Lawrence Clark and James West, has been arrested in a number ncluding Dayton, Ohlo; Salt Washington and Reading. ped from the Florida state grison farm April 6, 1921, while serv- ing a six-year sentence for robbery. A year later, while confined in the Berks county jail, Reading, as an automobile thief, he made a desperate effort to escape. MOTHER OF 3 HELD AS GANG S RAFFLES B the Assoctated Press, NEW YORK, July 14.—Mrs. Cathe- rine Buddensick, who got into the newspapers a week ago when her hus- ‘band and children reported her missing, ‘was arrested in Brooklyn today, the al- leged “Raffles” of a burglar gang. She was taken in custody at her boarding house apartment with a sixteen-year- old boy and four men. The woman is alleged to have directed an even dozen Jewelry and drug store robberies, in which the loot aggregated $50,000. She sald she was twenty-four, the mother of three children. According to the police, the four men and the boy acted as her scouts and committed the burglaries, the planning tho Jobs and disposing of the stolen goods. e e { AL e police statfon the woman_ de- ied knowing anything about the bur- glaries or of what her male companions were up to. She deserted her home, she said, because she tired of the drab life, with not even the time or money for 'the movies or a trip to Coney Island, “I had just begun to enjoy life and get the things I wanted when—th| . detectives he told them. T T|As A Matter £ 1 |Of Convenience £ N While the folks areZ away for the summer is= an excellent time to have= | us REPAIR THE ROOF, S downspouts and guttering. = { Tinning is necessarily a= | noisy task, and having the = job handled now will save = your household much an-Z noyance, inconvenience, = etc. Careful work—rea-= sonable prices. g MAURICE J. COLBERT £ Heating—Plumbing—Tinning 621 F Street Fione Mais s War on Bed Bugs With “P.D.S.” —and you'll win the fight uickly. They can’t stand the assault of “P. D. S.™ is pitiless in its effect upon Bed Bugs, but” will do no harm to: furniture or textiles. s “P."D. S.” has won wide fanie as a riddance for Bed . Bugs. With the handle noz- zle attached to the can it is effectively and economically applied~—reaching .into_the ;:‘gsvicel where the Bed Bugs de. For Sale at ALl Peoples Drug 2 Lz IR e e =i Fo rmer Takoma Park Woman 3 Takoma Park. to Rev = ] ust Escapes Chinese S'wts Advontists at Takoma It Mrs. John P. Anderson, formerly Miss Ethel Edwards of Takoma Park, had been under one of her hats which she took to China from the Distriot a year and a half ago, she would have had four bullets through her head, when the armies of Sun Yat|into the basement. Sen and Gen. Ming fought in Walchow recently. SN bullet holes in her hat upstairs. Mrs. Anderson and her husband, Mrs. Anderson is the dau Rev. Mr. Anderson, are missionaries for the Seventh-Day Adventist de- nomination, the battle raging close to the compound in which they live, | Sherman A. Mr. Anderson being away on a two- month itinerary among his churches, | could come so Mrs. Anderson took the two children | children couldn’ Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Edwards, 4 said that it Nagel and “I never dre ickory (Tests recently made by the Government with ice creams of various grades demonstrated a freference gen- erally for those products which contained the higher per centages of cream (butterfat), sugar and other constituents of ice cream.) For fifteen A Knox, treasurer of the general conference o!hhlemh-l)ly rk. Battle Started Suddenly. Mrs. Anderson, in describing the arted syddenly. Her children had just gone outside to play, and they were told that if anything happened they should go into the compound occupied by Rev. s family, who are also Adventist missionaries. get indoors,” says erl. All:d!l'll::l. "‘bll! I]]ld.ll once we IcOvVer: the city sol '8 €O After the battle she dlscovered four | our ot the clty. I told the chiiarme to run with the other children until finer of | we should. see what weould happen, kee) eir word. and before we knew it there was & wal and accused of hidink the enemy | - ~Fhey call to us now and then to|neutral area, so there will bo no | nocessary evil. 1923—PART 1. terrible battle on right out here hayond | in the compound so that they could | hurry into the house. We don’t go|danger to our property, We dom't . the compound. It lasted until about 6 | tunnel under the city. This was, of |out very much just to go from one|wish to go away.” z, o'clock. I spent ‘the afternoon in a | course, false, but they wouldn't listen | hous¢ to the other or run out for a R stufty little old room in the base:|to him, but had him go to the high-|minute. Saturday night, after their| y. . o0 'x"t :" : a 1a 1 declded to | est officlal to tell him. They be- | promine, I decided that we would stay | .o & toier letter Mrs. Anderson eal to spend the lleved him, but rald that unless the|in our parlor, sleeping on the floor, |z o e Dh arrived for Gen. Ming's ontside. sol- | enemy couid be persuaded not fo fire [ but at 11 o'clock there was a terri- | [07¢e8, who surrounded the outside diers would come in and rob, 80 Mrs. | across the compound, the city would | ble lot of shooting, and we hurried |3M¥ and drove them away. “So now ‘Nu:ol and ¥ watched until 12 o'clock | have to turn the cannons on our t. All the rooms Gave @ time of peace. Of coursey 'y and then Mr. Nagel watched the rest| nouses and fear thew Lo pleces. the servants | We don't know how long it will last. of the night. However, the night w: “Mr. Nagel agreed to g0 to the out- | and their families, 8o we have been | OF W rl,W“ happen next, but glad fairly quliet.. though they kept up a|side army and try to persuade them.|staying with the Nagels since then | ‘fgre [sn't fighting near at hand. constant firing und. | So he took the Amgrican flag and in | for company. A iasel. who braved the army. to The outside soldiers hid behind our |the face of constant firing went out| “We, of course, keep our clothes on. | 4% '""fl stilities cease around the wall. In.the morning there were two [to the army and talked with their [There is no telling how long the slege | Lompound, is well known in Takoma dead on the outside of the wall. We | head, and he agreed to consider the . nor what the outcome will | PATX. He has had other trying ordeals have a lot of broken window panes | compound neutral ground, and since |be. Mr. Nagel Bent a wireless to the | in China. He has been robbed on dif- and holes in our nicely painted walls [ then there has not been much firing | American consul at Canton yesterday, f"r"‘:fd"‘m?fllf‘:::fi;':v and his life threat- ” 252 night. We fe where the bullets entered. across it, though, of course, there is|and it Is possible we may be taken “The next morning there was not|firing all the time, and one can't al- |out. What Mr. Nagel wants is that much fighting, but about noon Mr.|ways feel sure that the soldiers will |the American consul shall send a gun- Nagel was summoned to the city Many women look upon their hus- boat and make them have a larce |bands as either a corivenience or & PUTTING IT UP TO THE PUBLIC (Ohich of these Three Ice Creams Do You Prefer- Can You Suggest ONTESTANTS may submit as C many. names as desired, but only one name per coupon. ere more than one name ia submitted on the same nmzon, first name only will be considered. ALL SUGGESTIONS MUST BE MADE ON THE COUPONES PRO- VIDED IN ORDER TO RECEIVE N "'%'g"m""u aiasie. "but cars al DFouid be taken as (o cléarness or easy reading. In case it s desired to make a , or an accident, such as blot- fh".".:-xu what was written {llegible, such change on the front of the cou- pon. 5 1 persons in - the employ of the CimpinBacks, Corporation” ave barred as contestants. 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