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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

A couple of weeks ago H. B. Walker,
an assistant jaier, opened the doc Of
Garrity's cell to spray it with disn-
fectant. Chief Jailer Armour and j. *.
Jordan, another assistant jailer, were back
in the tiers on an inspection tour.
As Walkers back was turned to Gar
rity, the latter suddenly slugged him,
crashing blow on the head. The guard
slumped to the floor, bleeding and uncon-
scious. The noise of hin fall could not be
heard for the general din and the clang
of cell doors End the clatter of tin cups.
Selling the guards keys, Clarity swift
ly unlocked the doors of the cells occu-
pied by Jordan and White. They ran
down flight of iron steps, on through
the revolving exit. A score of persons,
including Jail attaches, visitors and law
yers-the latter there to see clients-were
in the Jail lobby.
The three desperadoes darted into the
chief jailer's Office and came out with re-
peating shotguns and pistols.
They came out shooting wildly at the
ceiling and the floor.
The jailer and his two assistants were
helpless. They had been locked inside the
great steel iail cage. Garrity with rare
presence of mind, had locked the door be-
hind him. He was in possession of the
only keys carried by the three guards in
side the cage-those taken from the
assistant jailer whose PROSTATE form
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

en- tenants and-a red-headed, freckled
man.
"Does Mr.. Chestnut live here?" the
landlady was asked.
EYES," she said. "He and Mr.. Jordan,
over there, have a small kitchenette
apartment" nd she pointed to the red
headed, freckled man.
"Grab him!' shouted the inspector, and
two detective sergeants made a lunge for
the man.
The apartment was searched and a
wardrobe trunk yielded nearly $4,000 in
bills and silver. Paper bands around the
bills bore the name of the Cooper street
branch bank.
Arrest of Chestnut and Jordan afforded
a clew to the first robbery of the bank,
and later Guy Molony, who was superin-
tendent of police in New Orleans at that
time, picked up two men who gave their
names as Donald White and Thomas Gar
rity. They were brought to Memphis.
John Jordan, twenty-five, an eX-convict,
was convicted and sentenced to serve
twenty years in the Tennessee peniten-
tiary for completely in both robberies.
Robert Chestnut, twenty-eight, was given
a ffteen-year sentence for completely in
the second robbery. Donald White, twen-
ty-fve, and Thomas Clarity, nineteen,
were sentenced to serve fifteen years each
for the first robbery. Chestnut appealed
his case to the Supreme Court. He is in
Jail in Memphis today, awaiting a final
hearing.
Seven weeks ago "stool-pigeOn," who
occupied the same tier of cells in the
county Jail with the convicted bank ban
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

ing louder and more distinct. The first
remark | caught in full frightened me.
"'Keep your pistols in your pocket
heard.
Whatll we do with the shotguns"
another voice inquired.
Hide them up under the thicket
where the dew can't hit en- said the
first voice.
81 wanted to get away and to my home,
but the direction of our house lay on their
sidG,of the thicket and | was afraid they
might see me.
Their conversation kept up and
heard one voice say. You certainly hit
that jaier an awful blow, because he
keeled over without a murmur.'
"This was significant. 1t startled me
out of my wits. | guessed, of course, that
they had broken out of Jail.
There was no moon and knew that
ground and country like a city girl knows
the Parkway. 1 left my flowers, basket
and all, and orawled at least $50 yards
over the field in the direction of the
Pigeon Roost road and the city. And
then | ran, in stopping posture, for a mile.
When ] struck the Pigeon Roost road |
kept within the woodland. 1t was about
six miles to home, a family we knew,
where there was a telephone. 1t must
have been 1 o'clock at night when | woke
up those people and called the sheritf's
Office. | told him who | was and what
r heard.
You wait right there, miss, and if
they are the men we want I've got thou
sand dollars to give you,' he told me over
the telephone.
at didn't seem over fifteen minutes
until automobiles began coming There
was the sheriff and | guess about thirty
men. some of them deputies, some police
men in uniform and some detectives. They
carried sawed-of shotguns and one big
car was equipped with machine gun. 1t
sure gave me the thrill of my life.
After | explained the direction, the
sheriff began to give orders. And then
the men began to circle, forming a wide
Gordon distance of two miles from the
thicket where the men were concealed.
We had proceeded on up the road in the
sheriffs car.
Now, little girl the sheriff said, as
we halted again, I'm going to give you a
picked squad of three men, He said
they were A. o. Clar.. and William Gro
gan deputies, and w. C. Lermer, a SER
geant of detectives.
Are you afraid?' he asked me in a
kindly tone.
"The other fellows smiled at me and |
got brave right then - and told them |
wasn't afraid. We started crawling back
across that field until we were within
fifty or sixty yards of the thicket. ex-
planned in whispers and they told me to
lie down behind an old log and stay there
until they came back for me.
"They crept on up closer, and as l saw
their forms disappear into the clump |
put my hands to my ears. | Just i'm
agined | could hear shooting and screams
of dying men. But there wasn't a shot
fired. The squad had closed in on the
men while they were asleep.
Eyes, the sheriff sent me check the
very next day." the girl said in conclud-
ing her narrative. mo, | don't know
what I'm going to do with the money
It's in the bank now. Dad says that's a
pretty good place to keep it."
Jordan, Clarity and White We're taken
to the penitentiary few days ago, where
they are confined at hard labor.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01
The Memphis Jail
from Which the Three
Murderers Escaped.

Two motorcycle policemen had halted at
a street intersection six blocks from the
jail. They were ignorant of what had
transpired at the Jail.
Clarity, at the wheel of the fugitive
car, became alarmed and lost his head
Instead of sticking to their original plan
to rush to cover in the underworld dis
trict, Clarity made for the open country
His mistake earned for Rita Jarris that
reward of 81 900.
After a mad dash over country roads,
afraid to attempt to seek refuge in their
old haunts in the city, the escaped prison
ers decided to ditch the stolen car They
did.
And then they made for the woods and
brush, blazing a trail through thickets and
irving to work their way around to any
railroad.
The bank bandits had fed the city in
northerlv direction, but were heading
around eastward when they ditched the
lawyers car 1t was in the middle of
the afternoon when they were proceeding
on foot, crossing highways cautiously and
hrgging the woodland and underbrush.
They had crossed the Winchester Pike and
were in the vicinity of the Pigeon Roost
road.
Rita Jarris was doing and day-dream-
ing. alternating, under the shelter of an
oak tree, when the fugitives penetrated a
clump of woodland and thicket, and found
what they agreed was perfect secluson
and concealment.
They had gone into the brush back of
where Rita was seated.
81 didn't even hear them as they went
through the brush and foliage" the girl
told Sheriff Knight. 81 must have been
doing.
Presently, when l saw night was COM
ing on, | prepared to return home, and
knew / had already stayed out too late.
Father and mother would be worrying
and knew dad would censure me.
at was then heard voices behind me.
At first | could hear the men speaking in
low tones, barely audible, finally becom-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

TlJy anu WHlIG, anu
he was Sin on the
game" An outside confederate was to
Slip the prisoners two pistols through
negro delivery boy who took charcoal into
the prison. His story brought out that
revolving steel door, through which all
prisoners enter the tiers, was broken-a
fact that the jalers had not discovered.
The outside confederate was to have car
parked near the Jail. He would have plenty
of ammunition, but the plotters were to
raid the jailer's Office and seize all the
guns and pistols in their getaway.
Jordan, according to the "stool-pig-
cons" story, was to kill Emmett Armour,
chief taller, at the revolving door, after
an assistant jailer was lured inside and
beaten into insensibility.
Sheriff Will S. Knight and w. 7. Nc
Lain, prosecuting attorney, called con-
ference, with the result that for more
than a month the guard at the jail was
redoubled. All the prisoners were
searched, as were their cells. A lot of
saws and files were found in the cells of
other prisoners as a result of this precau-
tionary measure. The negro delivery boy
was watched closely.
But finally the emergency plans became
monotonous. Nothing happened. The
guards became less careful-and the
strangest part of it all! pistol was
slipped to the three convicted bank ban
dts. Clarity concealed the weapon in a
mattress.
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was in Garrity's cell.
In the Jail yard
janitors, TRUSTEES and
the gatekeeper were
driven to cover as the
escaping men brand
ished their weapons
and threatened to kill
everybody in sight.
The gate was thrown
open and they rushed
outside.
John E. Bell, an
attorney, had motor
ed to the prison that
morning in a high
powered automobile.
Like hundreds of mo-
florists who fail to
heed the advice of
police, Mr.. Bell had
left his key in the
ignition lock.
The fugitives
leaped into the car,
and in a flash they
were gone. They car
ried two repeating
shotguns three rifles
and each had a pistol
and plenty of am
munition to stand off
a mob.
But they lost their
cunning at tn, psy-
Geological moment.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01
Happened to Find the Hiding Place of the I
in the Woods, Called the Sheriff and Wit
Humping Heart, Led the Police Back
to Capture Them---And Won Il
the $1,000
Reward

TV7HEN Rita Jarris, dark-eyed
w country beauty, clad in a becom-
ing suit of knickers left the old
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dts, barred a MUIR
derous plot concoct-
ed by Jordan, Gar
rity and White, and
he mac ain ON the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-20

Mrs. William E. Rice. with her, was
wearing an unusual gown of bronze
tinted chenille, with a scarf of bright
green tulle about her shoulders. Mrs.
Frederick Dent Grant. daughter-in-
law Of President Grant. was among
the special guests in the Blue Room;
and there. too, one discovers little
group of Senatorial folk-most Of the
men members Of the military or
naval affairs committees.
Might Session ION the Hill''
Lures Senator'S Wives to Capitol.
Senator and Mrs. James w.
wadsworth, jr., were present, with
Senator and Mrs. David A. Reed,
Senator and Mrs. Arthur Capper,
Senator and Mrs. William M. But
ler-Mrs. Butler, very handsome all
in white with diamond combs in
her snowy hair-and Senator and
Mrs. William Cabell Bruce.
Mrs. George Wharton Pepper and
Mrs. Hiram Bingham, who had been
receiving together earlier in. the
afternoon. came together and left
early to take in the night session of
the Senate, where both their hus.
bands were in action. Mrs. Pepper
had on a lovely gown of petunia
colored velvet and carried cluster
OF orchids. Indeed, she always
seems to have orchids when there is
q White House reception or some
other big evening function.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Washington
Davidge, son-in-law and daughter of
Secretary and Mrs. Weeks, were in
the Blue Room group and there, too,
were Miss Elizabeth Hughes and. of
course, the members Of the White
House household-Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Sanders, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward T. Clark, Miss Laura Harlan,
Miss Mary Randolph and the rest
Among the guests last evening
were Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman,
Rear Admiral Andrew Long-a
fine figure of q handsome sea dog
General Amos Fries
still wearing one star where two
are soon to appear-and Mrs. Fries:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-20
JEAN ELIOTS NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY
NEW AMBASSADOR
TO BE DINNER GUEST

The French Ambassador and
Nine. Daeschner will be the guests
in whose honor Colonel Henry du
Pont will entertain company Of
thirty at dinner this evening.
The Secretary OF the Navy and
Mrs. Wilbur will be the guests Of
honor at dinner this evening OF
Colonel and Mrs. William Eric
Fowler, who will have a company
Of twenty-five guests.
Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur are
also guests for whom Mrs. Francois
Berger Is giving tea this after.
noon from 5 to z o'clock Miss
Craig, formerly of the Metropolitan
Opera Company. will sing old Eng.
lish songs at intervals. She will
be dressed in Colonial style. Mrs.
Taft, wife of the Chief Justice, will
be in the receiving line with the
hostess and the guests of honor
for q short time late in the after.
noon.
Assisting in the dining room will
be Nine. Alfaro. Nine Panaretoff,
Nine. Latour, Lady Betty Fielding,
Mrs. Arthur Capper, Mrs. Pat Har-
rison, Mrs. Robert f. Lee and Mrs.
Harrison, wife Of Judge Harrison.
Alternating at the punch bowl will
be Mrs. Harry Norment, Mrs.
Horace Mcfarland and Miss Nancy
Bigelow, Of Charleston, 8. c., the
fiancee of John Melton Hudgins,
grandson of Mrs. Moran.
The reception rooms are beauti-
fully decorated in roses, spring
flowers and palms.
Mrs. Wyant, wife of Congressman
Adam Wyant, entertained at buf-
fet luncheon today, followed by
bridge in her apartment at Ward
man Park.
Congressman and Mrs. Wyant
thirty.two at dinner tomorrow
evening at the Chevy Chace Club.
u Is
Doctor Leo S. Rowe, director
general Of the Pan.American Union,
who went to Peru to attend the
centennial celebration OF the battle
of Ayacucho. has arrived in New
Orleans on his way home and is
expected in Washington tomorrow
evening. Since leaving Peru, Doc
tor Rowe has been travelling in
Central America.
Captain and Mrs. George W.
Steel will come to Washington. from
their station at Lakehurst, ". J.,
to attend the Charity Inaugural
Ball on March and will have the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Wilbur as guests in their box. They
will give a dinner for Secretary
and Mrs. Wilbur before the ball.
4 X
Admiral and Mrs. Edward Eberle
will entertain at dinner on Feb
ruary a.
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ington from time to time when on
duty at the State Department, and
has a wide circle 81 friends. He
is the son Of Mrs. Arthur Kennard
Buxton.
Miss Lows mother, who died .
year ago, was Miss Lois Robbins
Curtis, a daughter OF Justice Ben
jamin r. Curtis, OF. the United
State Supreme Court, and q sister
OF the widow Of Seth Low, ct one
time mayor OF New York.
Mr.. Tredwell, who has been on
a ,tour OF inspection in Africa for
Continued on Page 81
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Captain and Mrs. Ridley Mclean.
Colonel and Mrs. E. Lester Jones,
Miss Cecil Lester Jones, Major and
Mrs. Conger Pratt, Miss Virginia
Dickinson, Miss Aileen Moran, Mrs.
Lewis Pitcher, Mrs. George Fort.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Henning, Rear
Admiral Hemphill and Miss Ora
Joe Henphill.
Also Colonel and Mrs. Frank
Jewell, with Miss Cecil Jewell, Com
mander and Mrs. John p. Jackson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Smith, Miss
Angelica Remey. Mason Remey, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward p. Stafford--Mrs.
Stafford, formerly Marie Peary, was
Admiral Peary's Snow Baby
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Joseph
Strauss. Rear Admiral and Mrs.
John S. Carpenter, Major General
George o. Squier, Mr.. and Mrs.
William S. Benson, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Cary T.. Grayson.
Also Colonel sand Mrs. Robert
Goetz-a gorgeous dragon in bright
shades embroidered on her black
gown-Major and Mrs. Philip Tor.
reg, Captain and Mrs. Wipprecht,
Captain and Mrs. Angus, Major
and Mrs. Douglas Cordiner, Miss
May Taylor, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Washington, the Misses Nan.
ME and Emily Chase, Brigadier
General and Mrs. John Hull,
Colonel and Mrs. w. c. HarIlee and
Major and Mrs. Lacey Hall. Mrs.
Halls picture frock of striped tat
feta, with a bright blue gown. was
enchanting. 1t was made with a
long full skirt and tight-fitting
bodice, suggestive Of the long ago
HOSTESS AT RECITAL
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Mrs. Coolidge attended the con.
cert yesterday in the National Thea.
ter to hear Kochanski, and had
with her Miss Laura Harlan and
her guests, Miss Malvina H. Shank
lin, of New York.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-20
GENERAL MITCHELL
"PLAYS LEAD" AT
WHITE HOUSE
President and Mrs. Coolidge Are Hosts to
Army and Navy; Reception
Brilliant Affair
BY JEAN ELIOT

Y1HE one question the Army and Navy
cepon Eat the White House last nights General BILLY
He early and he stayed late
Mitchell his he made sort of trumphal
the observed of all observers
stopped every codng shake his hand
romantic parsonage this fying generawhether
with him him the controversy which spread
his swanky
of decorations foreign and domestic
mimi his chesti
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-20
DANCING CLASS
WILL; MEET
TONIGHT
Many Will Be Hosts
at Dinner
Parties

The Friday Evening Dancing
Class will meet tonight ut the New
Willard. Preceding the meeting
there will be several dinner parties.
Among those entertaining are the
Minister of Panama and Nine. Al.
faro, who will have twelve guests:
Mr.. and Mrs. Peyton Gordon. WHO
are having company Of Gorty.six
guests at the Hotel Hamilton: and
Major and Mrs. Parker West, who
will have fourteen guests.
The Minister Of Ecuador and
Nine. Ortiz were hosts at dinner
last night. having as their guests
the Minister Of Uruguay and Nine.
Vare1a, the Minister Of Panama and
Nine. Alfaro, the Minister of Qua
temala and Nine. Latour, the Min.
lister of Paraguay and Nine. Fuse
bio Avala, the charge d'affaires Of
Japan, Mr.. Ycshida, the charge
d'affaires of Bolivia, DIR. Don ia.
vier Paz Campero; Mr., and Mrs. Ira
Bennett, Miss Cromeyer, sister Of
the charge d'affaires Of Salvador,
and Emelio Peran Of the legation
staff.
The Minister OF Switzerland and
MIuS. HOICE were HOSSS At uttlHOT
last night for fourteen guests,
among whom were the Minister OF
Norway and. Nine. Bryn and the
Minister OF Columbia and Nine.
Oloya.
The Minister and Nine. Peter Will
be hosts at dinner and Nine. Peter
will be hosts Of dinner on February
% and again on March q.
y
The Minister Of Greece and Nine.
Simopoulos will leave Washington
today for Boston, where they will
remain until next Wednesday.
y
JUSTICE AND MRS HOEHLING
DINNER HOSTS.
Associate Justice and Mrs: A. A.
Hoehling were hosts to q company
of ten at dinner Wednesday evening
in compliment OF Associate Justice
and Mrs. Wendell Phillips stafford.
Mrs. Richard 8. Hill 10 entertain
ing at bridge this afternoon for her
daughters, the Misses Hill, in com.
pliment to Mrs. Brent Young, wife
OF Lieutenant Hill, u. s. NJ, who
has recently come back from Chiiln.
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where Lieutenant Jill has been
stationed. There are six tables of
bridge. Miss Gladys Kairne and
Mrs. Hill will preside at the tea
which will follow.
&k
ROGER TREDWEI4L'S
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Announcement has been made OF
the engagement OF Miss Hariette.
Low, daughter of william G.. Low,
Of Boston, to Roger Tredwell, Con-
sui General at large for the United
States in Central Asia and Africa.
Mr.. Tredwell has lived in Wash
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-12-15
NOTED FIGHTER
EFOUNDDEAD
ON SIDEWALK
Senegalese Believed To
Have Been Slain Af-
ter Quarrel in Night
Club; Bad Tempered
lBv The Associated Press.l

NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec. 15.--" Bat
Ting Sikh, Senegalese pugilist, whose
real name was Louis Phal was found
murdered early today on the Lower
West Side. Death had been caused by
either a gun shot or knife wound In
the back.
The body was found lying face down
ward on the sidewalk about 100 feet
east Of Ninth avenue in the district
known as "Hells Kitchen Identity
was established by Policeman John J..
Meehan, friend of Sikh who found the
body.
Patrolman Meehan said he had met
the Senegalese fighter short distance
from where the body was found little
after midnight and that they had ex-
changed greetings, Sikh shouting that
he was on his way home. He lived on
West 42nd street with his wife and .
pet monkey.
Four hours later Meehan was walking
through 42nd street when he saw the
body Of Sikh lying on the sidewalk.
A revolver was found in the gutter
short distance from the body, from
which two shots rad been fired and 1t
was DeileVeu Dy ponce tHAI lne WcaPVn
was used TO commit the murder and
then thrown away as the slayer fled.
1t is the theory of detectives that Sikh
went into one of the numerous night
clubs nearby and became involved in an
argument and that he was followed into
the street and murdered.
| Battling" Sikh, who first sprang into
public notice when he won the worlds
| light heavyweight championship from
Georges Carpenter in 1922 in Paris, has
had many escapades which frequently
resulted in brawls. He has been injured
several times in street fights in this
country and spent some time recently
in the French hospital here as the re-
suit of knife wound.
Since his arrival in the United States
in 1928 after losing his title at the
hands of Mike McTigue in Dublin. he
has emerged in many bouts but without
notable success.
Examination of Skis body showed
that he had been shot twice from the
rear. One Of the bullets penetrated the
left lung and the other lodged in his
kidneys.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-12-15
YOUTH HELDN
TRIPLESLAYINC
Arkansas Boy Caught
Asleep in Home where
He Forced Entrance
(By The Associated Press.) }

10y ne ASSOcldLeQ 1TeSS.J
YELLVILLE, Ark, Dec 15.-Arnold
Conner, 16 year old youth, hunted
through yesterday and last night by
posses from two counties in connection
with a triple Staying at Buffalo, a
mountain hamlet Sunday, was captured
early today at the home of Ira Robnett,
ten miles from Buffalo,
The youth appeared at the home of
Robnett, last night. and is said to have
forced members Of the family at the
point Of pistol to take him in. When
he fell asleep member of the family
was sent to summon a deputy sheriff
who arrested him this morning. Ac-
cording to the information received
here Conner offered no resistance, al
though he is reported to have had seven
guns. He will be brought to jail here
Conner was wanted for questioning
in connection with the killing of
Charles Moore, a fur trader, Mrs. Tom
Boyd, wife Of a farmer and her grand
daughter an infant, who were shot and
dubbed to death Sunday. Moore was
shot to death on road way near Buff
falo and Mrs. Boyd and her grand
daughter were found dead at the Boyd
home, some distance from the scene Of
the killing Of Moore.