Omaha daily bee., 1921-12-10

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ing nearby, took their pistols and
then forced them to go ahead of him
to the stockade, where their presence
admitted them and permitted him to
overpower the one guard on duty
there. Slaughter then opened the
cells and offered all the prisoners lib
erty. Only six took advantage of
the offer and two of the guards were
locked up.
Takes Guard to Office.
He next took one guard to the
Office of the prison with him and took
possession of it, turning the guards
on duty there over to the men who
elected to escape with him. Next
he went to the hospital and forced
IA nurse to precede him outside the
walls to the apartments occupied by
Warden E. H. Dempsey and his fam
! lily. The nurse awakened them and
Slaughte rthen forced them to ac-
& company him to the death cell, where
they were locked UP. He told them
ne would not harm them and later
brought them pot of coffee with
cream, sugar and cups.
Slaughter then threw the gates of
the prison wide open and leisurely
set about outftting himself and COM
panions with civilian clothing from
. the commissary. "
g. At 2:30 a. III. Warden Dempsey
said he heard an automobile leaving
and with the aid of prisoners above,
who cut hole through the floor, at
his direction, he escaped from the
death cell and spread the alarm.
Slaughter had taken an automobile
\ belonging to Mr.. Dempsey and
: stripped all the tires from a roadster
belonging to Edward Dempsey, son
OF the warden. -.....
Slaughter is 26 years old. He told
an Associated Press correspondent
at the time of his first incarceration
HI the penitentiary here that he was
reared in southern Arkansas and
when IA years old, was convicted Of
{ charge of grand larceny and sent
/ TO the reform school. He served his
term and then drifted into Oklahoma.
Since that time he has participated in
numerous bank robberies in Ar
kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri
and elsewhere He escaped twice
from the Texas penitentiary and his
/ term in Texas was unexpired when
4 lie killed Deputy Sheriff Brown in
Hot Springs, little over year ago.
Admits Many Robberies.
Slaughter denied a killing credited
to him in Pennsylvania, but admitted
he had taken part in many robberies.
The desperado, who had been con-
sidered one of the most dangerous in
the Arkansas penal institution, made
an unsuccessful but spectacular at
tempt to escape from the prison farm
at Tucker when he killed the trusty
guard in September. Slaughter had
obtained rifle from the outside and
on Sunday morning when the men
were gathered in bath house he
5 opened fire on the guards outside.
He kissed Bliss Addison, trusty
guard, serving a sentence for mur-
der committed when posse raided
band of draft evaders Of whom
Adkisson was one. He also wounded
other guards. He finally was forced
to surrender when a guard in hiding
took him unawares.
Cell Searched Daily.
He often has boasted that he
would never go to the electric chair.
at Hot Springs he and his cell mate
were searched daily for weapons.
After jury returned a verdict of
life imprisonment he turned over to
the guards, who included company
OF national guardsmen, handful of
hack saws, remarikng that if the
sentence had been death he never
would have stayed in Jail over night
The state guard was called out on
another occasion just about year
ago to guard the penitentiary here
when a plot which he had instigated
for a wholesale delivery of prisoners
was uncovered.