The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-17


Sumner, Marion county sher-
iff, to fortify the jail a month
ago.
Yesterday. he revealed a plot to
free the alleged slayers of Sergeant
Lester Jones and dynamite the Jail.
A woman, whose husband is a
prisoner in the Jail, was held for
questioning by detectives. She said,
in a purported signed statement to
police yesterday. that she had in
PRODUCED John Gordon, trusty, who
is serving a sentence for burglary,
to John Dean, brother of Edward
Foggyl Dean, alleged trigger man
in the Staying of Sergeant Jones.
Dean and Gordon were held for
a hearing Dec. 4. Charged with
vagrancy, John Dean is held in
communicate, in default of $1,000
bond.
In the purported statement, police
say. the woman stated that Gordon
had dates with her in the Jail gar
age and took her to and from her
home in a county automobile.
In her purported statement. the
woman said that John Dean was
the outside man" in the plot. She
is said to have related that he
struggled two loaded revolvers and
two sacks of ammunition into the
old road patrol Office of the Jail
garage with the aid of Gordon.
Dean. according to police, was to
have smuggled dynamite into the
Jail on the day of the proposed
break to blow up the steel machine
gun cage, erected in an anteroom
of the Jail by Sheriff Sumner about
a month ago when the terror
mob" of escaped convicts was run
ming beserk in the state.
Refused Aid, Is Claim
In the intricate plot to free the
accused slayers of Sergeant Jones,
the Jail barber, Hershel fowler,
federal convict, since taken to the
Atlanta penitentiary, refused to aid
in the plans to Smuggle arms into
the prisoners. it was asserted.
fowler. police said. was given the
impression that Dean and Gordon
we're to smuggle small packages
into the prisoners. each of which
was to contain pistols and ammu-
milton.
In her .purported statement to
the police. the woman held for queS-
tioning said:
"On Nov. 7. 1888. Jorn Gordon
came to my house and rode to
the Jail garage with him. While
Gordon was doing some work IN
the garage. sat III the garage ONCE
reading. About thirty minutes after
we arrived at the garage John Dean
came into the garage and asked me
where Gordon was.
Statement Is Quoted
Dean walked to the back of the
garage where Gordon was and they
talked for about fifteen minutes.
Dean went out the front door ana
Gordon took me home"
In the alleged statement the
woman said that Gordon first ap-
peared at her house Oct % and
asked for her husband. Then on
Nov. 1. the woman said a man who
she learned was John Dean called at
her'home and said:
Il learned from my uncle, Ernest
(Red) CIibberson zone of the alleged
Jones SlayerS), who is in the county
jai. that you know a man who
works in the jail garage.
RevOlverS Are Found
The woman, according to police,
admitted that she knew Gordon and
that Dean then asked her to intro
duce him to Gordon because he had
a kite" ca letter. and also pack
age of Mirajuana cigaretS which he
wanted to send TO the fellows in
middle east" the cell tiers housing
the Jones slayer suspects.
In her statement, the police said,
the woman then told how she
effected the introduction of Dean
and Gordon and how the package
containing reyolverS and ammuni-
IlOil WAS " OC SllueElcQ 11AlO tic
Jail at night.
Shortly after the plans had been
about completed. Sheriff Sumner,
who has been suspicious of a Jail
delivery for more than a month,
discovered the reyolvers and ammu-
milton hidden in the office of the
old road patrol
Taken Into Custody
When the barber. Toyler, told of
the efforts to involve him in the
plot. Sumner laid plans to capture
Dean. Dean appeared late Wednes-
day at the jail and was taken into
custody.
Confederation Of the Jail break
story was furnished by Miss Thelma
Hall, al. of 614 East Ninth street.
whose father is q prisoner at the
Jail. police said.
She told police, officers claimed.
that she was approached at her