The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-10-20
JAIL BREAKERS
To BE RE TURNED
To BENNINCT
Lacl1ey and Grogan now Held in
Massachusetts
RELATE STORY OF ESCA, /
Lackey Carried away Paddock
Staple as Souvenir of
Escapade

II is understood that some
official from the Sheriffs department
will leave today for Watertown. Mass.
for the purpose of returning to the
jurisdiction of the state of Vermont
| William Lackey and John Grogan
who were held at the county Jail here
charged with burglary at East Dorset
and who escaped Sunday afternoon
The boys were arrested Tuesday after.
noon by Watertown policemen. 1t
appears that the boys are residents
of Cambridge, Mass. and until re-
Gently attended the Rindge Technical
school. Lackey is ward OF the state
of Massachusetts and has been LIVING
with Robert Kane of Cambridge. Gro
gan is son of Michael Grogan of the
some city.
According to the story told the po
lice at WateTtown, Lackey sold score
cards at the Harvard-Holy Cross foot
bal game on October / and secured
S27, Instead Of turning the money in
the police assert. he and Grogan start
ed ont to give the world the "once
over and the next day they started
for Vermont, their destination being
East Dorset where Lackey once lived
with farmer They were taken into
custody in Troy as vagrants and re-
leased the next day.
1t was soon after they arrived at
East Dorset, on the night of October
z that the boys broke into the small
building occupied by two Italians EN-.
ployed as switchmen on the Rutland
railroad and stole Italian currency
valued at nearly three hundred dol
lars and some personal property. Ac-
cording TO Laekey, the pair left East
Dorset Immediately after the robbery
and went into New York state where
they were arrested and Lackey was
given 10 days in jail for carrying a
pockc< gun and Grogan was held as a
delinquent.
The boys we're turned over to the
Vermont authorities by the sheriff of
Washington county and were lodged
in jail here last week. Because of
the fact that both claimed to be un'
der l6 years of age they could not be
confined behind bars and therefore
became guests of Jailor and Mrs.
Arthur A Russell This freedom from
re straint facilitated their escape
Lackey told the Watertown police
that Sunday afternoon he and Grogan
walked into the hall at the Benning-
ton county courthouse building, broke
a panel in door leading into the
main corridor and walked out or the
front door. BY appealing to auto
mobile drivers they managed TO-
reach Cambridge Monday night ana
slept comfortably in the cellar at
the home where Lackey had been nv
ing when the boys started on their
escapade.
Tuesday morning they started lor
Watertown clad in some long over
coats owned by Robert Kane, with
whom Lackey had been living me
coats were OF heavy material, as MI
Kane is a driver for a Cambridge busl-
ness concern and is exposed to all
kinds of weather. They visited
hoy friend in Watertown and wheh
the boys mother sighted the long
coats she became suspicious and notl-
fed the police.
After being taken into custody Lac
kew displayed clipping taken from
the Evening Banner describing the
break at the local jail He also snow
ed one of the big staples taken from
the locks to the Jail corridor ana
which he said he had carried away
n !. snnYenir.