The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21

white men from Detroit, charged with burglary and grand larceny, made their getaway.
 The seven men walked out of the all ley entrance to the jail court. while dep- uty sheriffs gazed at them from windows in the second story of the county court house, and it is said would have created little excitement had not one of the Ital- ians, becoming alarmed, started running before they got out of the alley.
 Cars were put upon the trail of all of the important rumors, and at an early hour in the day, every road leading out of Birmingham was being covered. Dep uty Marshal Smith was perhaps the first person to see the prisoners after they escaped. MT. Smith was driving into the jail alley yesterday morning about 8 o'clock, when he saw the seven men come through the side gate, according to his statement.
 SMITH GAVE. CHASE
 One of the men, he said, had bunch of keys in his hands, and that was what made him suspicious. He says he left his car in the alley, and chased the men down Twenty first street.
 "At Twenty-first street and Fourth avenue, they divided Mir Smith said, three of them going straight out Twen- tyfirst street, and the other four, I sup pose going up Fourth avenue I chased the three men down Twenty first street to Fifth alley, when they disappeared through a yard"
 MT. Smith says he then returned to the jail, got his car and following a ru- nor which had come in to the office of the sheriff, chased a car as far as Oden- vile. Men all along the route, he said declared that the car, Buick or a Cadillac, had passed their homes going about 50 miles an hour At Odenville MT. Smith gave up the search and re- turned to Birmingham
 Neither Overton nor Malino nor Mes sina were among the four that he chased out Twenty-first street and it is be- lieved that Overton, Malino and Messina and one of the other men are together, and that the three others have taken a different track
 Just before escape occurred, Inside War den Orr, Wade Allen, a trusty; Malino and Messina were having breakfast in one of the cells together, according to Warden Orr
 WERE EATING BREAKFAST
 We had been in the habit of eating breakfast there together he said Tony was pouring the coffee, when he put the pot down and he and Sam stepped out into the hall. We didn't think anything of it. and the next thing we heard some body call: [.
 Come quick, they're all getting out
 And then we found that we had been locked in our cells When we were finally released we found that Mir Cole, a trusty, and who had been left on guard outside the door while we went into breakfast. had been thrown inside the mems department of the jail where we were, and that the door leading into the hallway had been locked"
 The inside lock had been taken from Overtons cell, and this had been used to lock the outside door, according to the warden.
 From the hallway, the prisoners made their way to the kitchen. where Lem and took his keys away, according to his statement.
 "GIVE ME THE KEYS" 'T was standing there by the table fixing up the short orders, when I heard somebody say, Give me them keys. |" said Mr. Lavender. T turned and saw Tony standing with pistol right under my nose, and Overton right behind him With another pistol.
 At first, l thought it was just a joke, and l said Whats the matter boys? and then Tony started cussing me, and I felt a razor at the back of my neck About that time the fourth man, whom I don't know, stepped up behind me and pulled my hand out of my pocket where the keys were. and got them, and then