The Glenwood post., 1920-07-17
CoNvICTS TAKE
CAR and SKIP

The matter of starting to Hanging
lake in an auto, leaving the car at
the convict camp at the foot of the
hill and climbing by trail to the lake
may be very pleasant pastime, but
this style of exercise will not be re-
peated by Mr.. Garland of this city,
who tried it last Saturday to his sor-
row.
Mr.. Garland had as his passengers
Mrs. C. X. Elliott and her two daugh-
ters, Miss Elizabeth Elliott of this cii
and Mrs Haines of Indianapolis, and
Mrs. Henion and Rev johnson and
Miss Meeney of Glenwood. AS Mr..
Garland had never seen this famous
beauty spot, he decided to accompany
the ladies up the trail.
He left his car at the foots of the
trail, right by the convict camp. Two
of the young men convicts had report
ed themselves sick that morning, and
they were allowed to remain in their
tent. They did not report for dinner,
but while others were partaking of
the noon meal they entered the ear
and spinned away. Mr.. Garland says
he left the engine locked, but this is
doubted by many. When around
curve and out of sight of camp one of
the boys climbed pole and cut the
telephone wires so that their absence
when discovered, could not be easily
reported.
When Mr. Garland and party return
ed in the evening, five or six hours
after they left the car, they failed to
find the machine, and made inquiry
about it at camp. This was the hrst
intimation to anyone that the boys
had made their escape. 1t was soon
found that it was impossible to call
Glenwood over the telephone line and
party was dispatched to Glenwood
to call Sheriff Fravert over the rail
road phone line.
river and learned that the car had
passed through Rife and Silt, but no
one had seen it pass through Rifle. He
suspected that. the boysI~-,d crossed
the river this side of Rifle had
gone down on the south side. This
theory proved correct. He learned
that they had begged gallon of gas
at Rulison and had proceeded west
-, 10 Tol
deputy, Harry Walz, and Clv7-
tinpham with his Cole 8, the sheriff
hurried to the Grand Valley section
where he located the abandoned car
in aulch near Battlement creek.
The party then went to Grand Val-
ley and in due course of time the
"consn came out of the brush, intent
on boarding westbound train, and
they almost ran into the arms of the
sheriff. They were brought to Glen
wood and placed in the county jail
and few days later were taken by
Deputy Warden Buchanan back to the
state prison where they will spend the
balance of their sentences behind stone
walls.
Jack Campbell, alias Jack Gustaf-
son, was sent to the pen from Denver
last May for from six years to life
for statutory offense. He is but ~
years of age.
Raw Durham who is 20 years of age
was sentenced from Denver last Octo'
ber on a grand larceny charge, his
principle offense being the theft
automobiles. He has a wife and baby
in Wyoming, although they once lived
in Grand Junction.
Both young men are auto mechanics
and on this account the finding OF tins
car right at their tent door proved
an especial temptation to them. al
though they declared to the sheriff at
the time they entered the ear they had
no intention whatever of trying to
escape. They thought to take little
ride they said, but when they found
they were in high powered car they
decided to increase the distance be-
tween them and prison life as fast u
possible They said they soon realized
their mistake, but not until it was too
late to back track.
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