Evening star., 1931-12-13
DYNAMITE USED
IN PRISON BREAK
Warden's Wife Says Husband
Ordered Gates Opened
After Attack.
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charge of the prison today, in the alb
Sence of Warden White. recovering from
gunshot wound in the arm suffered
in an attempt to overpower one of his
captors.
Morrison said: "To stop them" is
the duty Of a guard observing an at
tempted escape. However. he added
the guard must use his own good judg
ment.'
Report Due Soon.
George Harvey Of the Kansas City
headquarters of the Department of JUS
tice, who was completing a preliminary
investigation of the break. said he prob
ably would have statement within "a
hours. He Indicated other ConviCts be-
sides the seven might be implicated.
Among the questions to be answered
were the source of the four revolyerS,
the shotgun and rife used in the alb
duction of the warden; where the priS-
onerS obtained nitrOglycerine found on
the three captured; the origin of passes
by which the prisoners went through
the inner gate to the warden's office,
and the extent to which others outside,
as well as inside, the prison might be
involved in the plot.
Three Guards Questioned.
Louis M. Kelley, inner gate guard !;
John D. Dempsey. main gate guard,
and Gray, in the tower facing the main
prison entrance, were believed to have
been questioned by Harvey.
Dempsey was the guard forced to
accompany the armed prisoners to the
office Of WarCen White, where the
official, E. H. Eckholdt. his secretary;
B. F. Anthony. foreman of prison con-
struction; Charles M. Scott, bookkeeper,
and two typewriter statesmen were as
sembled as hostages,
District Attorney Sardius M. Brewster
said conviction on charges of escaping
the prison would add five years to the
terms of the three recaptured men.
They are Tom Underwood, received
from Duluth. MINI; Stanley Brown,
43, received from Fargo, N. OAK, and
Charles Berta, 30, received from San
Francisco.
Brewster said there would BE no
hurry" in filing charges. We've got
these men for 25 years, he added.
The bodies cf the dead conVictS, VII
liam Green, 81, mail robber sentenced
from Kansas City, Kas., and Grover c.
Durrill Al, and George Curtis, 35,
Oklahoma train robbers, will be buried
here unless claimed by relatives.
Feared Dynamite Threat.
Mrs. White said her husband told
her from his hospital bed the threat
persuaded him to open the main en-
trance gate.
"Mr. White ordered Capt. Dempsey
he did not the man who held the
dynamite would blow up the peni-
tentiary entrance" Mrs. White said
The dynamite was found in the
wardens car. which they were unable
to start on the first lap of their dash
to freedom"
Several times the convicts threatened
to kill Warden White, and he lis most
thankful that he is alive" she said,
adding:
When he grappled for that gun out
on Lecompton road he realized it was
his last chance. Two of the convicts
Il believe they were Green and Thayer)
told him time after time they would
kill him if anything happened. He
firmly believed then that he never
would escape alive"
Green shot him with the last cart
ridge left in his shotgun and Mr.. White
was aware that there was only one
shot left in that gun" Mrs. White said
Whites left arm was severely torn by
the shot and he also suffered a slight
chest wound.
Weapons Concealed.
Mrs. Whites account continued:
He said the arms used by the men
-four niStOlS rifle and a soup1 off
shotgun) certainly came into the peni-
tentiary concealed, in can of material
possibly, or in clothing. AS for the
passes FUSED by the convicts in max
ing their way to the wardens ofices)
Capt. Morrison told me the men must
have obtained blank passes and filled
them out with their own names.
His hands were bound when they
took him to the Gates house "a farm
house invaded by the fugitives) and he
knew then they had every intention of
killing him. All their plans miscar-
ried after they got out of the prison.
once they threatened both him and
Mrs. HerShel Phillips in the Gates
home"
1t was at this point that White plead
ed for the Woman's life, and Thayer
pleaded for her, too, saying he had had
granddaughter about Mrs. Phillips
age.
When Mrs. Phillips got away and
four men were left in the party Cthree
conVictS fled in another direction) the
warden was ordered into a car they
took away from four boys" said Mrs
White
Mrs White then turned back to a de-
scription of the first events of the break.