Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
PENAL FARM BREAK
LEADER CAPTURED
Georgia LITER Boasts to De-
troit Police of BurgIaries.
Wife, 10, Is Held.
o. The Associated press.

~ the Associated Press.
DETROIT. October 3i.--Arresteo
early this morning as a Itfer who las,
July led break from a Georgia penal
farm where he had been imprisoned
Tor Staying Macon cotton broker. JACK
Martin, alias James Barfleid, sat In
police headquarters late today and re-
lated q lengthy story Of jail breaks
hufglaries, automobile thefts and
hold-ups
While admitting he participated In
the staying of Z. b. Hogan, the cotton
broker, I'm 1927, Martin said the killing
occurred when he attempted 70 prevent
one OF hts companions from shoot
ing him.
Girl rs Is Jailed.
As Martin was boasting OF burglaries,
car thefts in a dozen cities. six escapes
from the Milledgeville, Ga. Penal Farm
and OF holding up United States mar
shal in Omaha, an le-year-old Detroit
girl whom he said he married here
I'VE weeks ago, was being held in the
women's detention home. Police said
they had been able to learn only that
her name was Mary Lou Miller. Mar
tin told later Of another wife whom
he named as Ruth Dozaway who joined
him after one OF his escapes from Mil
ledgeville He said she was at present
serving a term at Anderson, w. Va, for
violating the Federal motor vehicle
theft law.
-rd rather be shot than 20 back
there" Martin said when asked whether
he would waive extradition. He showed
marks on his leg that he said we're
made by shackles he wore at the pris-
On farm
Describing his escape last July, officers
quoted Martin as saying:
II made a wooden pistol. held
up a guard with it and took his gun
away from him. With that gun I held up
some other guards. made them saw
of the ball and chains they had me
shackled with ] let 80 others out.
stole a horse and rode 1t until 1t
dropped in its tracks. Then stole an
automobile and came to Detroit"
Other information from Milledge-
vile said that IL men escaped in the
break last July and that most Of them
had been recaptured.
Martin was arrested shortly after
midnight Friday in an apartment in
Second boulevard. In an adjoining
arrested. They are Jackie Bell and
Ralph Lee and Helen Dawson, 19, and
Mildred Buchanan, IS. In an apart
ment In Charlotte avenue, nearby, Jack
Chisek, Harry Pelavin and Louis Cara
yaglia we're arrested. Several hours
later Mary Lou Miller arrived at Mar
tins apartment and also was arrested
The men are held for investigation
and the women as police witnesses.
Tells Of BurgIaries.
Detectives said Martin told of bur-
glaries in Detroit Ann Arbor, Omaha,
Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Miami and
Kansas City and of car thefts in half
a dozen cities. In Omaha, he said, he
burglarized so homes during a two
month stay there.
He said he and his wife left Omaha
late in 1929. His wife, he said. was
arrested in Toledo and returned to
Omaha as a fugitive. He followed
them, he said.
I'm the depot at Omaha" he said,
81 held up the marshal and Ruth got
away. stole a car and we drove to
Detroit. We stayed here week and
then drove to Atlanta, where we were
picked up on the Dyer act. She got
three and half years in the women's
reformstory at Anderson, w. Va, and
] was sent back to Georgia"