The Washington times., 1921-08-03
TEN MORE
INVOLVED
IN ESCAPE.
Training School Teacher Also
Suspended in Frame Up"
to Free IncorrigibIes.

Sensational developments in the
case of the escape of eleven girls
from the National Training School,
on Conduit road, last month, has re-
suited in the arrest of four men on
the launch "The Vamp," anchored at
the Potomac wharves. Warrants for
others camped up the river also have
been sworn out. Charges that the
"jail delivery" was aided by teach
er in the school, and that an employee
working on one of the buildings took
one of the girls away in his auto
mobile, are the additional details.
Raided Last Night.
The raid upon THE Vamp," which
took place last night. resulted in the
arrest of Robert L, Smith, forty-one,
1410 Columbia road northwest; Louis
Gramlich, twenty-eight, 1913 Sixth
street southwest; Charles p. Rabbit.
twenty-six. 453 E street southwest:
William E. Buckholtz, 46s / street
southwest. They were held at the
First precinct upon charge of in
vestigation.''
I'VE have caught six Of the escaped
girls. They told us a teacher in the
school, who has since been discharged.
gave them a key to the gate and
looked the other way when they es-
capped" said Mrs. Nina C. Van Wrinkle,
In charge of the women's bureau Of the
police department. this morning.
They said she did not report the
49, xzo {xx.xs xadt tAIu nd 81 IA frn n
Searching party in the opposite direc-
ton in which the girls had gone, fol-
lowing the discovery. She had been
giving the girls candy and cigarettes,
according to them. We are investigat-
ing the incident and action will be
taken.
"The girls told me they went over a
cornfield past Conduit road and down
to the river, side, where they met men
With boats, A
THESE nier took them over the
Virginia side. where the girls say
they got bathing suits and threw
their training school gtnghsm uni
forms into the river. ~
Prominent Man Involved. -
ave have caught six of the girls.
Three were found the night of the
escape. One was picked up on the
street here, another was caught in
Richmond and last Saturday we got
one in a moving picture theater. All
had bobbed their hair. Clothes, they
said. were provided by their men
! friends. including prominent
Washington man.
1.-TWO of the five girls that are
stfll at large are now in Richmond.
we learned this morning. We have
sent there for them.
The yacht The Vamp was used
to take three of the girls around,
they told me. They went to Marshall
Hall. They implicate a man, who.
they, say, brought them to Washing
ton after the trip and put them on
the train for Richmond. The girl we
got from there was tulAd over by
her parents.
Some of these girls have been
living up the river at a camp, they
said. Their testimony duplicates
several men, and we will try to
swear out warrants for them"
10 More Involved.
Detective ]. M. McLucas, Of the
suc-Tenleytown precinct, has been in
vestigating the condition of the
river campers named by the girls.
He visited police court today, armed
with damaging testimony, and was
to get warrants for ten persons.
All the girls who escaped were
under eighteen years of age.
Mrs. Griffiths, superintendent Of
the Reform School. said this morning
she is investigating the story of the
girls that a teacher helped them es-
cape. Mrs. Van Wrinkle said that
Mrs. Griffiths. upon returning from
her vacation, sensed an undercurrent
of dissatisfaction among the teach.
ers and the prisoners, and traced In
TO the teacher. whom she discharged
Mrs. Griffith said she would rather
not discuss the case, and referred a
Times reporter to Chaplin Brown,
who Is connected with the institute
on the governing board. Mr.. Brown
Is well known lawyer, and he is
investigating the girls charges with
The lnfentinn of faLlr,n-