Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-09-06
Roy Gardner Mail Robber,
Makes Third Getaway
In 13 Months
GUARDS SHOOT TWO
Two Flee Ohio Jail.-Mcn Held For
Million Dollar Steal Knock Out Two
JaiIurs.

Tacoma, Wash, Sept. 6.-Roy Gard
ner, California mail bandit, escaped
from Mcneil Island Federal Peniten-
tiary late yesterday during jail
break in which Everett lmpyn, Fed
eral life prisoner, was shot and kill
ed. Lawrence Bogart, another life
prisoner, was shot and possibly fatal
ly wounded.
First reports said that Gardner was
wounded. Officers started the chase
Immediately. Warden Maloney and his
deputies said they were confident
Gardner had not escaped from the is
land unless he had confederates wait
ing for the jail-break. The break
came during ball game when more
than $50 prisoners were watching the
game. Gardner was playing on the
team. The three prisoners are said to
have made rush for the fence.
Impyn was shot and killed almost in
stantly by the guards. Gardner got
over the fence. Bogart was recaptured
and taken to. the prison hospital.
San Francisco, Sept. 6.-The escape
Yesterday of Roy Gardner, California
mail bandit, from Mcneil Island Fed
eral Penitentiary was the third he had
made in the last 13 months. On two
previous occasions he escaped from
officers while en- route to prison tc
serve long sentence.
Gardner made his first break for
liberty in August, 1920, from train
at Portland, Ore. He had been SEN
fenced to 25 years for robbery of a
mail wagon at San Diego. June IL of
this year the bandit escaped from a
deputy Federal marshal and a Federal
guard on a train sear Castle Rock,
Wash, while en- route to Mcneil Is
land prison to serve term OF 70
years for robbing the mail near New
castle, Cal. He had confessed to the
robbery. He was recaptured at Cen
tralia. Wash, June 16 and taken to
Mcneil.
Toledo, Sept. 6.-Three men, in
dicted for conspiracy in the million
dollar postotfice robbery here last Feb
ruary II and awaiting trial for al
legged robbery in the same case, es-
caped from the Lucas county jail
early this morning without firing a
shot.
The men are Joe Urbaytis, George
Lewis, alias George Rogers, and
Charles Schultz. All three are declar-
ed by police authorities to have been
actual participants in the robbery
and were to have gone on trial early
next month.
The escape was effected by over
powering two deputy sheriffs, who
were left in charge of Jail full OF
prisoners, including eight more con-
victed in the postoffice robbery, while
Sheriff Jack Taylor was attending the
county fair.
Sam Zimmerman and George
Szmetko, the two deputy sherltfs,
were slugged by Urbaytis, who used
a buckle and strap from Jail cot. DR..
William Shapiro, Jail physician, es-
capped harm by locking himself in the
cell.
The fugitives walked out of the jail
unmolested after seizing four large
revolvers from the Sheritf's desk. NO
trace Of them had been found last
night, despite thorough search made
by practically every available police
officer in the city.
All three of the convicts have long
police records, according to the
authorities. Lewis is said to have been
identified during his period OF lncar-
ceration by California authorities as
an escaped lifer from San Quentin,
where he was serving for murder.
Schultz and Urbaytis have been con-
nected by the police with a long list
of hold-ups and robberies during the
last three or four years.
Urbaytis is a brother of Wanda ur-
baytis, who was sought for nearly a
month as the woman with the black
bag who disappeared from train at
Elkhart, Ind. The girl was taken IN
Chicago several days later and was
convicted with her brother on the cons
spiracy charge. None of the II con-
victs had been sentenced.