Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-17
MURDERERS ESCAPE JAIL
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arrest, reports have come to thel
authorities that friends of the for
mer evangelist were planning to|
deliver him, and it was current
Jail gossip that he never would
permit himself to be taken to san
Quentin.
Adam Ward, one Of the jail
breakers, was also known as
Adam Blazyk and convicted here
September Is and was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in connec-
tion with the murder of Nancy
Wheelock, an aged woman who
was strangled to death.
| Start of Jail Break.
i The start of the jail break was
request of Spignola, known in
the Jail as "the mouse" to Elmer
, Condor, one of the assistant in
side jailers, to open the tank OF
the third floor to take some soiled
laundry.
AS Condor opened the stee
door, Spignola leaped out upor
him and pinned his arms agains
his body. Wilson also leaped ou
and jerked Condon's pistol iron
the holster. Wilson was about t
) shoot the pinioned guard whel
'the mouse" interceded.
"No, no, don't add murder t
- this" he exclaimed.
Wilson then ran down the stall
l. way to the first floor, where the
y encountered Henry Purrier, tn
= night turnkey. He was struc
four heavy blows on the head an
knocked unconscious. Harry Glaz
re another assistant jailer, was e.
to countered. and the jail breake
1T forced him into closet.
81 Take Away the Keys.
~ The Jail breakers took the ke
- from Purrier and unlocked the tN
doors in front of the Jail and tn
locked them behind them. Tn
ran east to the vicinity of the fe
eral main postoffice. They leap
into the automobile Of postoff
employe named Story, and ST
away.
Glaze, breaking from the clos
reached a telephone and spre
.T the general alarm.
II Wilson, recently convicted
the Staying of his companion, '
being held in the county
pending an appeal in his case.
A clergyman and singing ev'
- gelist, Wilson halls from Lono
~ Ont. and at one time held p
torate in Brownsville, Or. lie
~ :. arrested here early this year
~ : federal officers investigating
70 robbery here March 3 last year
~ mail truck in which la
ion quantity of valuables was tax
The trail by federal and state
,o1l ficers led through series Oh 9
nm er mail robberies and deparlm
oan store burglaries throughout
the country.
IA Last April while Wilson
no1 Cox were confined in the cou
, iail with Eddie Farrell, also kne
RI. as Eddie O'Brien, held IN conf
i on tion with them in the looting
ma mail truck in Toledo, ONO
,ion nearly a million dollars in
and and valuables, sheriff alta
,red here received word of an after
ed jail break.
ma Deputies were stationed at
S at cry possible means OF egress
ses- the Jail and when the attem
nre- break occurred, Farrell was
ma cantured in the corridors
Red court room building near the
DEPUTIES hearing shot rusne
yross to the bridge between the jan
Leart the court room and found
reed wounded and dying on the !
and Wilson standing over MN
rt OF Herb did it," Cox graspee
ltion fore he lapsed into unconsc
e le- ness and death.
S re- Farrell was sent to Tolet
alton face trial by federal author
back Wilson was tried by state aut
said, ties on a charge of murder a
they was upon this count that ne
rams convicted and was awaiting
they ing of an appeal when b
Iine capped.
spignola, the third of the
i'd by breakers was arrested in Seat
n M. connection with the robbery
the Standard Oil station here +
Bill airy 2S last of $4,000. He
ID by tried and convicted and sent
Bel to one to fifty years In san
new tin penitentiary.
ala. Thomas Forno, l2-yei
what boy, playing in the street In
of the county jail was wound
two stray bullets fired durin
Jail break. His injuries wei
ru. considered critical.
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