The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-31

through Kansas and into OkIahoma as the captive of six fugitive con- victs, Warden Kirk Prather re- turned early to-day to the Lansing staet prison.
 Accompanying him were two guards, John sherman and l.. A.. Laws, who were liberated with him last night near Welch, Okla.
 The warden's clothing was spotted with blood from wounds received by one of the six convicts as they fled from the prison yes. terday with the three officers as hostages.
 Prather was met at the prison entrance by his wife, overjoyed at his safe return.
 Tears of joy came to the eyes of Mrs Prather, who had kept her emotions under stern control dur. ing the long hours of waiting.
 Prather's hands were cut and bruised, but he suffered no seri- ous injury while in the hands of his abductory. His shoulder was stiff and sore, where the butt of a. gun wielded by one of the conv!cts had struck him.
 He appeared calm, but Laws and Sherman were highly nervous.
 "They gave us he'll" Laws said as he stepped out of the automo- bile.
 Fellow guards at the prison were surprised that Laws survived his hours of captivity. Ono of tho fugitive convicts was known to have q deep hatred for Laws, and authorities had feared that the guard would be killed.
 As tho convicts seized Laws dur ing the uprising at tho Memorial day baseball game, ono of them had remarked to him:
 "This is going to be your last
 Warden Prather said that the wounded prisoner was Harvey Bailey, who was shot in the leg by guard as he went over the prison wall, The bullet apparently shat. tered the leg. Bailey suffered great pain on the automobile trip. ac- cording to the officers.
 Start of the Break
 The fugitive convicts, including seven llfe-term prisoners, rebelled during q Memorial day baseball game on the prison diamond yes- terday.
 armed guards and went oyer the wall with the three penitentiary of- ficers as their prisoners.
 Outside the wall, they divided, commandered automobiles and drove away.
 The three women. riding in one of the automobiles seized, were or- dered to stay in the car. The convicts drove along rural roads, avoiding closely guarded main highways and cities through which these arteries pass. The convicts spread @ reign Of terror over the peaceful farming regions of eastern Kansas as they drove madly onward. Several times they stopped mos torists and exchanged cars. adding to the confusion of the pursuit. As word of the prison break spread, housewives called their children in from play and locked the doors to guard them The six convicts who Kidnapped the warden and the two guards were ring-leaders of the break. 1nc i've OLneTS uuccicu III Ou the mutiny during the confusion in the ball park at the prison grounds. Apparently they were determined to hold the women they captured for protection in fur. ther encounters with posses.
 Wilbur Underhill, 30, killer of three men and suspected of other murders, started the mutiny, and was at the wheel of first one stolen car and then another as he piloted his companions and the three off, cers to Oklahoma.
 "They threatened to kill us, but they didn't" Warden Prather told the United Press in a long distance call from Welch, Okla. a few mo- ments after his release.
 Prather conferred by telephone with peace officers of several northwestern Oklahoma counties on plans for pursuit of the outlaws. and then left for Lansing with the two guards.
 Laws supplied vivid details of