Milford chronicle., 1927-10-07
SUSSEX COURT DOINGS

Carlton Gale, of Delmar, charged
with stealing an automobile; Lee
Davis, alias Vasel Bailey, arrested
on the passenger train bound from
Philadelphia for Bridgeville a few
months ago, and Lee Farlow, charg-
ed with assault and battery, were
each sentenced on Tuesday to pay a
fine of $100 and serve three months
in the Sussex County Jail, at
Georgetown, for making their es-
cape on July 4. The three men ac-
companied by Edward w. Hayes
and Robert Wilkerson, Jr., made
their escape by saving the latch of
the steel cell in which they were
confined and then saving through
two bars of the window.
Hayes lived near Greenwood and
at the June term of court was con-
victed of burning the barn on the
farm of John Elwood Dukes, a
Philadelphia lawyer. He was con-
victed on June 29th, and was wait
ing sentence. Wilkerson was a.
waiting trial on charge of stealing
an automobile and accessories from
Carl F. Gordy of Delmar. Neither
Hayes or Wilkerson have been ap-
pretended. Both were ringleaders
in the jail delivery. Outside help
had been obtained, and officials be-
lieve the saws with which they did
the work had been smuggled to
them several days before. Farlow
and Davis were apprehended on the
State Highway, near Dover the
following day by officer Joseph
Holt of the state police force, and
few days later Gale was captured IN
Chester, Pa, and turned over to the
Sussex County officials.
Judge Herbert L. Rice, in impos-
ing sentence, told the three prison
ers that the charge of escape was a
serious one to be brought against
them and provided for substantial
sentence. But in view of the TACT
that they have been in prison Tor
three months since the jail break,
he imposed a small sentence upon
them. Asked if wanted to say any
thing regarding the escape, the
three men did not want to talk
about it.
Storing liquor on the property of
another person and holding it to
stage parties proved rather costly
to Carl E. MCGEE, of Laurel, in
General Sessions Court on Tuesday
afternoon. when he pleaded guilty
to the charges and was sentenced
to pay a fine of $4,000 and costs and
be paroled for one year to State
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alleged that he had ten quarts of
liquor and that he obtained permits
sion from a friend to store it in an
outbuilding. He however, did not
tell the friend at the time that he
wanted the use of the building to
store the liquor. Suspicion center
ed on MCGEE, it is said, and upon
investigation it was found that he
had the liquor in his possession. The
young man stated to Judge Rice
that occasionally he staged a party
and made "highballs", and that the
supply of liquor which the officers
found was for entetaining his
friends. Judge Rice asked the young
man if his wife did not object to his
liquor parties, and make protest
to him. MCGEE stated that she
might have had some objection, but
she never expressed it. Judge Rice
told MCGEE that if his wife had
strenuously objected that she could
have stopped it, and the only fault
he had to find was that she did not
exert her rights.
Since McGee's arrest some time
ago, he had been living a clean and
upright life, officers told the Court,
and the opinion was expressed that
he had learned his lesson.