Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12

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tice Frederic r. Deyoung of the State
Supreme Court.
Authorities are convinced that the
Mexicans and ? their friends had
planned the break for an earlier day
in case the appeal was denied, but
that the Mexicans, with saws and
weapons, decided against awaiting a
hearing before the Supreme Court
months later.
The Jail break was similar to the
prisoners first desperate drive from
the penitentiary last May. At that
time seven of them, including Charles
Price, who never was caught, went
to Deputy Warden Peter Klein's Office,
stabbed and beat him to death, re-
leased themselves and with a prison
guard at their head, marched across
the penitentiary grounds and emerged
through gate as though they were
a labor gang.
Leopold Was Witness.
In a prison automobile they escaped
pursuit for the time, some of them
passing night and a day i'm the
woods in the Illinois River bottoms.
They separated but all except Price
were retaken.
The trial of the six conyicts for the
murder of Klein received additional
attention because Nathan Leopold, one
of the two sons of Chicago rich men
who were sent to prison for life for
the staying of little Bobby Franks, a
schoolbOy whom they first kidnapped,
was one of the witnesses.
Leopold was in the solitary section
of the prison for an infraction of
prison rules and saw the seven con-
victs as they emerged from Klein's
Office after the killing and was re-
ported to have been offered an oppor-
tunity to escape with the others, but
refused. On the witness stand he
refused to testify.
A wild ride in a misty morning with
three desperadoes ready to kill any
one getting in their way, Deputy
Sheriff Krinich had an experience Of
a lifetime that terminated as he stood
between the fire of the Mexicans and
policemen. He was not even scratched.
The dash for freedom in the sheriff S
automobile over paved roads, made
slippery from a night of rain, started
40 miles from Chicago. The big car
swerved and skidded from roadside to
roadside as the Mexicans sped 60
miles to Indiana Harbor In an hour
and a half.
Breakdown Changes Plans.
The breakdown of the machine at
Indiana Harbor led to a change Of
plans, and the Mexicans then. with a
taxicab. doubled back into Chicago.
A dozen police squads in automO-
biles had thrown up a watchful wall
on the South Side in an effort to stop
the fugitives. In south Chicago, on
Ewing avenue, which leads into the
city from Indianapolis boulevard. the
gateway into Indiana, the Mexicans'
taxi was espied.
Forcing the taxicab into the curb,
policemen leaped from their car as
the Mexicans opened FIRE. The first
bullets wounded their chauffeur and
two policemen. Policemen Grant and
Frost. from the ground where they
fell, and Sergt. John Klaske, In
charge of the squad. returned the fire.
Don't shoot me. l am a deputy
Krinich shouted as he found himself
between the FIRE Of flashing guns.
RHO started over a wooden sidewalk
into a declivity and toppled with a
police bullet In his body. He had
fallen under the sidewalk. and for the
moment was out of sight.
Klaske, with two armed Mexicans
hands, soon had re-enforcements and
Torrez was seized and taken to Jail.
Roa got away in the darkness.
Wounded Convict Caught.
Shortly afterward policeman
found the wounded RHO trying to
break into a private garage. The
policeman, carrying a shotgun, fired
twice as RHO fed down an alley.
The shooting attracted other police.
men, who closed in on RHO, who had
reserved his fire. The fugitive sud
denly emptied his revolver without
damage to the police and gave up the
fight az patrolman thrust a shotgun
close to his face.
At a nearby police station RHO was
identified by Deputy Sheriff Krinich
and then collapsed.
RHO had been wounded near the