Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1922-10-17
Noted Bandit
MAKES ESCAPE
FROM PRISON
Former Clergyman Convicted of
Numbering Pal Outwits Los
Angeles Police

ros ANGELES, Oct. 17.-Herbert
wilson. saown by the police and
federal operatives as a master GRIM
., convicted of the murder of his
, uorhert Cox, escaped today from
oonr,v Jail here with another
,,,tote3 murderer, Adam Ward, and
,fni3o spignola, held in connection
4.b tra rabbery of a number of oil
.,,,ors aud chain grocery stores here.
Tho trio outside the Jail held up
.,s.off..a employe and escaped in
r,- ,r+,mo5He. The Jail break was
,,rorrry timed for just before ?
.,.,ock when the guns had Deen
,oper from the guards just before
changing shiftsN The jail breakers
,,ot the tight turnkey. Henry Pur-
r,sr after having held up two OF the
inside guards. Squads of uniformed
norioemea The flying squad and scores
of dppg.y sneritfs were called into
the man hunt prepared to shoot at
sight on The belief the escaped trio
are the mos desperate fugitives the
,oral police have ever been called
unor 10 deal with, they say.
The fail breakers are armed with
revovers. evidently smuggled in by
friends. Many times since Wilson's
arrest reports have come to the au-
tborities 1at friends of the former
evangelist were planning to deliver
him. and it was current Jail gossip
he never would permit himself to be
taken to San Quentin. He had ap-
peaed from conviction.
The clergyman and singing evan
gelist, Wilson. halls from London,
Ont, and at one time held a pastorate
at Brownsville. Ore. He was arrested
here early this year by federal Off
GERS who were investigating a rob
berry here on March 3 OF a mail
truck In wbrh large quantities of
yaluahlas we're taken. The trail by
federal and stale officers led through
a series Of other mail robberies and
department. store Durg!aries through
o9t the country Last April. while
WasOu and Cox were confined in
the county Jail with Eddie Farrell,
also known as Eddie O'Brien. held
in connection with them in looting
a mail truck in Toledo of nearly a
million dollars in cash and valuab.es
sheriff attaches here received word
OF an attempted Jail break planned
Tor Sunday morning. Deputies were
stationed at all possible means OF
egeSs from the jail The attempted
break occurred and Farrell was first
captured in thetcorridors OF the court
room building near the Jail. A shot
rang out and deputies rushed onto
tne bridge Of sighs" between the
jail and court room and found Coz
wounded dying on the floor, and vii
son standing over him. Herb die
IT, Cox gasped, and lapsed into un
consciousness and death. Farrell wa,
sent to Toledo to face trial for rob
OeFy OF the mails. Wilson was con
0cted here for Cox's murder.
Inc start Of the Jail break was a
,ae request Of spignola, known ii
jail as The Mouse" to Elmer Con
uon' one OF the assistant inside jail
etS' 10 open the tank of the thirC
uOoF TO take some soiled laundry
ny Condon opened the steel doc,
'p'shoIa leaped out upon him anC
pinned his arms against his body
"''Son also leaped out and jerkeC
OOnaon pistol from his holster. VII
0On was about to shoot the pinne,
suSfu When Spignola interfered. mo
"O' cont add murder to this" h,
.A''a'ned Wilson and the other,
aSn ran down the stairway to tn,
MI" toor, where they encountere,
1snry PuFrier, night turnkey. H,
~a' struck four times and knocked
unconscious, Henry Glaze, anothe
assistant taller, was encountered an,
O.'eu INTO a closet. The Jail break
,as, hS look the keys from Purrier, un
s"s osSeu TWO front doors of the jai
Tru M 'nen locked them behind them
hn psy then jumped into the automr
ma a0 Oi the postottice employe, whom
"eS compelled to drive them awsy