Evening star., 1933-09-04
JAIL BREAK DESCRIBED.
Outlaw DisarmS Texas Guards
Kidnaps One.

BY the Associated PresS.
DALLAS, Tex, September 4.-Harv.
Bailey, notorious outlaw, today held
a jailer who brought his breakfast,
and escaped from the Dallas Count
prison where he had been held for TIL
kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel, Okla
homa City oil man.
Bailey, also indicted as one Of tha
machine gunners' in the Staying Of -four
officers and Convict Frank Nash e.
Kansas City, and Tresp left in ths
latters car while no one else was Ill
sight at the jail garage.
The car headed for the northeast
part of the city and for highway
leading in the direction of the Wise
County Farm, where Bailey was cap
tured August r.
Authorities believed Bailey planned
to meet confederates. Descriptions of
him. Tresp and the jailer's car were
broadcast and every available officer was
sent out to guard highways. They were
heavily armed.
Bailey, ring leader of the break of II
convicts from the Kansas State Prison
at Lansing on May 80, was waiting
with a pistol when Charlie Young,
deputy jailer, approached his cell above
the sixth floor of the jail building.
RingIeader of Break.
Bailey surprised Young from an ad-
jacent cell He had sawed three bars
from the door of his own cell, crawled
through and, as Young approached,
he stepped into the barred room next
to his. AS Bailey began speaking.
Young dropped the tray of breakfast
to the floor and raised his hands.
o,lubt RI bill y0,, b1It yolI'vo faeD
so nice to me that I won't" Bailey told
Young Give me those keys in hurry
and keep quiet"
Taking Young's keys, the desperate
walked down to the sixth floor, covered
Ed Morrow, who was on duty there, and
began questioning him about the jail
elevator, the only means of exit to the
street. The elevator arrived meanwhile,
revealing the presence of Glen Wilson,
chef, and colored trusty.
Bailey locked them in solitary con-
flnement cell, rode to the main floor
in the elevator and met Tresp.
He asked Tresp where his car was
and when informed it was in the jail
Tresp there and commanded him to
start driving. The car was a 1929
model sedan, painted green.
After being reported on Maple avenue,
cne of the city's main thoroughfares to
the northwest, Bailey and his captive
later were seen near Rhome, less than
20 miles from the farm home of r. G..
(Boss) Shannon, who. with three other
members of his family, wes captured
with BAILEY in connection with the
Urschel case after Department Of
Justice agents had watched the place
for days
Held Pending Transfer.
Bailey had been held here pending
transfer to Oklahoma City, where Mr..
and Mrs. r. G. Shannon and his son,
Armon Shannon. were indicted with
others for the oil millionaire's abduc-
ton. The Shannons were transferred
to that city after hearing before
Federal Judge James c. Wilson at Fort
Worth. Bailey, who appeared at Fort
Worth the same day for hearing, was
returned to Dallas for safe keeping.
An order for Bailey's transfer was
signed a week ago, but Federal officers
had delayed removing him.
1t was learned plane flying low cir
cled the Jail building three or four times
between and am. today mvestiga-
tors reasoned that this might have been
the signal for Bailey to plan an imme-
diate escape, certain that confederates
were ready to pick him up.
U. s. Withdrew Guard.
Until four days ago the Federal Gov
ernment had kept an officer sitting in
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