Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-18
WILSON, PALS
FOUND EARLY
TODAY IN |. A.
Don't Shoot" Cries Bandit
As Sheriff Posse Ready
To Open Fire
p. o. CLERKS HELP
Ex-Safe Cracker HarbOrs
Trio of Escaped Men
inL. A. Home
United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18.-Herbert
Wilson and the two prisoners wno es-
capped from the county Jail early yes
terday were captured here at $3.50 thus
morning. The millionaire bandit
who has boasted he will never servo
the life sentence imposed upon him,
surrendered without resistance when
Sheriff Traeger and seven deputies sur
rounded the house where the fugitives
had hidden.
Tom GarWOod, eX-Sdfe cracker, had
harbored the refugees.
When Officers beat on the door, VIII
son opened window and looked into
the leveled guns of his captors.
= Don t shoot!' he cried.
A woman. Gs.rwood's sister, finally
opened the door, and the escaped pris-
oners, hands-high in air, walked from,
the house and were tandcuffed.
Adam Blaszyk, convicted murderer,
'ames first, Guide Spingola, "The
Mouse, next, and Wilson last.
/ a few minutes later--about "a hours
after their SPECTACULAR iail-orcak--the
prisoners were back in their cells. Car
wood and his sister, Mrs. L. a. Stanage,
were also taken into custody.
Sheriff Traeger learned early last
evening that The fugitives were in the
city when l.. NJ. Storey and Emery
Bean, postal employees, who were made
the unwilling ch;.affos-s of The escapes,
returned to the jail.
Thanks for Keys
Storey brought with him the keys
TO the Jail with d message from Wilson
10 the lailor Informing him that "Thcss
had been carried away in the haste cf
the moment.
Storey and Bean said they had been
forced to drive about the city, ard
then were kept prisoners in a chicken
coop until after dark. Wilson, as lead
er of the gang, assumed a gallant man
ner, they said, treated them courteous
ly and frequently apologizcd for the
discomfort he was forced to cause them.
! Resistance wculdn t have been USE
less, for there S always chance, ard
| IN not afraid 10 take chanCes,' VIII
son said at the jail today.
But there were reasons for not
fighting Sheriff Traeger and his posse.
"At present all / can say is tnat ]
am as resigned as a man can be under
the circumstances-those of {. man fac
ing life Imprisonment for 4 murder he
did not commit. For / did not kill Her
bert Cox.
"After we eft the two postal Jerks
in that chicken coop we just drove
around in the postman s Ford. IL was
about clock when We reached Tom
'Iarwood S home. | had never met Gar.
wood before.
81 had not planned to remain long
At the house, nor did | intend TO stay
with the boys who escaped VITA me.
We stood better chance for nberty
by separating.
81 want TO say that those two post
office men were good fellows. We had
no intention of harming them. Also
IN sorry for any Inconvenience we
caused authorities. 1t was necessary
to scufflc with Jailor Purrier because
he had the keys. In the confusion
when we got out of the tank one shot
was fired. II was an accident, and
| IN glad nobody was hurt.
Wilson, unruffled and apparently not
excited discussed the escape and cap
ture in fluent language,
Sentenced by Cole
the man known as Adam Ward, who es.
capped from the Los Angeles Jail yes
5erday with Herbert Wilson and Guido
Spingola, was sentenced TO life i'm
prisonment by Judge Franklin j. Cole
IF this city, while holding court in Lbs
Angeles last month
Judge Cole said this morning he re-
membered Black when he saw his
name in the newspaper accounts Of the
iail'break and recognized him as onc
If three men whom he sentenced to lie
imprisonment for the particularly bra
tai murder of an aged woman in Los
Angeles. He described Black as be-
ing equally as dangerous as Wilson
and q ''bad man possessed Of the cun.
ming and ferocity of thug. He was
gratified 10 learn Of the quick capture
Of the trio and expressed the hope
hat they would be taken 10 San Vuen
tin as soon as possible where escape
would be more diffieult than IN Log