Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-28
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70 one year for bootlesging; r. r.
Carter. Dallas county, Ill years for
highway robbery; Alvin Iceland,
Archer county, 20 years for bank
robbery; Bill Tompkins, Comanche
county, IS years for burglary; Irwin
Davis, Callahan county, two years
for burglary; Harvey Williams, Tar
rant county, five years for bur
glary; Johnny Collins, Bexar coun-
vt, two years for felony theft; Fred
Burkett, Dallas county, 10 years Tor
felony theft.
Tucker, Carter and Ireland we're
re-taken before dawn Saturday.
Tucker, witnesses said, fired the
shot which killed Henry Ward, dog
sergeant at Imperial Prison Farm
No. 2. General Manager Mead said
that murder charges would be filed
against Tucker.
HOUSTON, July 2s-CP)-Seores of
armed men, following 35 blood
hounds, today were searching the
marshes around Richmond, 20 miles
south of here, for five of eight con-
victs who shot their way out OF
Imperial state prison farm No. /
about $3.50 p. m. Friday, killed a
guard and wounded two deputies,
one perhaps fatally. in a second gun
battle. Two convicts also were
wounded.
Henry Ward, dog sergeant at the
farm, was killed when he attempted
TO prevent the break in a field where
the conviets were c~ultivating cotton.
He was slain, officers said. BY r. H.
Tucker, a convict, who shot the
guard from q horse. Tucker was
later recaptured.
The break began when Jim Jeeter,
q guard. mounted on a horse and
carrying a gun, was disarmed as he
watched the working convicts.
Jeeter had leaned over on his horse
to hand q file 70 one Of the prison
ers when several Of them pulled him
off his mount. His guns were taken
and he was ordered to remount his
horse and get away quick
Ward Shot Off Horse
As Jeeter fled, farm officials said,
Tucker kneeled and fired a shot
gun loaded with buckshot at him. A
few bullets grszed Jeeters arm. but
he escaped and spread the alarm.
Ward heard the report Of the gun
and went to Jeeter's aid. He fired
several times in the air and one OF
the convicts fired at him once.
Ward fell off his horse. fatally
wounded.
Justice of the Peace C.. r. Pike
of SugGrland. who held an inquest
over Wards body and returned a
verdict Of murder, said that Ward
apparently had been shot through
the neck with a As caliber pistol
after he had fallen 70 the ground
mortally wounded.
The convicts took Wards horse
and guns and fled across the farm.
A posse Of about fifty men from
Blue Ridge farm. Harlem farm and
Imperial Farm No. / was formed i'm
m~ediately.
Commander Auto
Four OF the escaped men trAmped
nine miles through the marshes and
underbrush from the point Of their
escape toward Richmond. and there
they Communicated an automobile
driven by Fritz Severein, and carry
ing his father mad another man, COM
PEELED him to drive toward Rich.
mond. Just outside the town they
stopped at the home of A. P. George.
cattleman. Three Richmond depu-
ties. r. L. Wheaton. Frank T.. Bell,
and Tom Davis. had been waiting
Tor the approaching automobile.
When the conyicts saw the other
machine in the road they ordered
their driver TO stop and, as they
alishted, used their prisoners as
shields. They walked toward the
deputies, saying, Don't shoot.
boys"
Fire on Officers
The officers, blinded By lights Of
the other automobile. could not
shoot for fear of striking one of the
three men held by the fugitives.
When the convicts got within a
few feet Of the deputies machine
they opened fire with pistols and
shotguns, and the officers returned
their fire. Davis was struck IN the
left lung with a full charge of buck
SHIT. His recovery is doubtful.
Bell, who had been wounded in the
left shoulder, dragged Davis TO safe
~. and two OF the convicts raced
across an adjoining field. The two
others, Alvin Ireland and X. NJ. Car
ter, n Of whom was shot through
the wrist, and the other in the
shoulder. surrendered.
As far as was known early Sat
urday, the men still at large were
scattered into tu.o 1.~t,.