Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-03
MABRY SAWS WAY
|. OUT OF CITY JAIL
FOR SECOND TIME
H o oudini of Bastille"
Makes Good Boast He
Wouldn't Stay Long.
PRISONER RECAPTURED
BY RICHMOND POLICE
Said to Have Threatened
Hines Life if He BLEW
on Him.
TAKEN ny TRAFFIC. roL,oEM>x
Alleged 4" Have Admitted lie Hal
Engaged Car to Take Hin,
Ont OF City.

hiie other prisoners were singing
hSmns In religious servicc, Travis
w. Mabry, "FIoudini of the Bastillc"
sawed his way to liberty iron, the
city jail yesterday for the second
time within four months. Before he
jumped into the Jail yard below he
AnnS challenge to Walter r. Iine.
sentenced to nftecn years in the state
fenitentiary for the murder of Po-
liceman Washington I. Curtis, to tut1l
him In his dash for freedom. Hines
refused and. with tho parting threat
III you blow on ME I'll kill YOU
Mabry jumped to the yard below.
Hines said he told his jail companion
! All right: I am going back to my
cell and sleep" Yesterday was Ma
bry's c7th birthday.
The prisoner sawed through ,hreo
steel bars In cfCccting his cscapc.A
ie"' minutes after the fugitive ha
cleared the jail yard. Herbert irlov,l
deputy sergeant. discovered the cs
cane. Two bars We're found removed
from steel corridor fronting III.
cells OF Mabry and Hines into which
the prisoners had access, ana tho
third bar had been sawed from rbe
yard window. Police HcadouartSre
was Immediately notified. and n fey
minutes later Lieutenant BRYANT had
Heritable network OF detectives, .n,,
police about the city
surrendcrs at Poipt Of t:un.
An hour later the fugitive sur
rendered, at the point OF n rcvolvsr
I'm the hands. OF Policeman Marrusen.
or the traffic department, at Ninth
and Hull Streets. South Richmond
lie said he was In sight Of a spced,
automobile that the prisoner is al
legged to have admitted was to ail
him In his flight for freedom.
Police arc. investigating the al
legged admission OF the prisoner th1f
he had arranged for a gar to speed
him from the city. but az late honr
last night no arrests had been made
Mahry told detectives he was withI.,
block of the automobile when can
turcd.
Mystery surrounds the smuGglir.s
OF saws to the prisoner with which,
he cut his way from the CITY Jai,
10 freedom for the second time. ns
every precaution in said to have been
taken by 1ailers to guard against I,
repetition OF the methods used by tn.
prisoner in making his initial escape
here NTember II. city Sergeant
John C. Saunders said all cIoti,ins
and food brought to tho prisoner
since his recommitmcnt here, March
IL. had been carefully searched and
the only visitors admitted to the cell
were the prisoners wife and sister.
They paid the prisoner n visit last
Thursday and spent few minutes
at the cell door.
In Police Court Today.
Mabry Is known under the aliases
OF III. l.. Murthy and Clarence Mabry.
and was awaiting action by the grand
jury Of Hastings Court on three
felony charges and "a misdemeanor.
lie IS to he arraigned in Police Court
this morning on n fourth charsc-of
committing a misdemeanor.
Sergeant Floyd said last night tina,
the prisoner cut through the bars
while religious service was bcinr
conducted on the second floor OF thu
Jail under the auspices Of the I.road
street Methodist Church. and he ;s
OF the opinion noise of the saws was