The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30

day, only one has been captured.
He is James Clark, serving a life
term for murder.
Clark was captured in Hammond
shortly after he had liberated
Sheriff Charles Neel of Harrison
county, kidnapped as the ten convicts
fled from the prison.
-Four OF the fugitives were in the
automobile stolen at Terre Haute,
which was halted suddenly in Ben
Davis to throw pursuing state po-
lice off the trail.
Terre Haute Man Seized
First reports on the escaped men
we're received at 7 Friday night by
Indianapolis police, when Browns
town (Ind) officers stated six men
had abandoned an automobile there
and had headed east on U. S. Road
81 in another car, a large, gray Sc
dan.
Shortly after 9 Radcliffe was kid
mapped by three men, robbed Of his
blue seven-paSsenger Franklin auto
mobile and a watch.
The a was taken after he was
forced tor drive east out Of Terre
Haute. He was thrown from the
car which he said was followed by
another large machine in which
three or four men rode.
Radcliffe identified one of his cap
tors as Russell Clark, serving a
twenty-year term for robbery.
Heading east, the convicts sped
through Brazil at GAS, both cars
having been sighted by police. The
next report was at six minutes past
midnight when Plainf1eld officers
sighted one car.
State Police Join Race
Shortly after the convicts' a left
P~lainfeld, its trail was taken up by
a state police squad commanded by
Sergeant Bert Davis using an
armored automobile, and a chase
east on u. S. Road 40, which at times
reached an DISQUALIFICATION
speed, was on.
Efforts of police to force the other
car into the roadside ditch failed.
In Ben Davis, the driver of the pur-
sued car stopped suddenly at the
intersection of Road 40 and the High
School road was reached. The po-
lice car speeded past. The bandits
shattered rear window glass in their
car, and trained pistols in a group of
bystanders at the intersection, but
did not fire.
AS an effort was made to turn
into the High School road, the con-
victs' automobile struck a pole and
n man was thrown out. Although
apparently injured, he succeeded in
escaping on foot. The others fled
west in the badly damaged auto
mobile.
Appears in Bloomington
Lyle's captor is believed to have
been the convict thrown from the
2 omobile in Ben Davis.
Lyle appeared at police head
quarters in Bloomington shortly be-
fore 4 this morning, and said that
while driving near Ben Davis, he
was stopped by an armed man who
climbed into hi automobile.
With a revolver pressed against
him, Lyle drove to Spencer on State
Road Ct, then on Road IS to Bloom
ington and from there to Nashville.
The gasoline supply ran low in
Nashville, and Lyle dashed away in
his car. while the convict was trying
to obtain more fuel at a filing
station. Tentative identification Of
his captor as jenkins vas made by
Lyle from a photograph.
Fight Is Prevented
Over-eagerness of state police is
believed to have prevented a fight
to the finish in Mickleyyille, nearer
to indianapolis than Ben Davis.
Had the state officers remained
slightly behind, it is believed that
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an ambush of indianapolis police
in Mickleyville.
Aiding in the hunt as the chase
neared Ben Davis were Deputy
Sherifs Patrick Kinney and Howard
Skaggs. They were at Speedway
City when informed by radio of the
chase and drove to Ben Davis in
six minutes.
Edward Shouse, one of the con-
yicts. is believed to have been on a
Big Four freight train at Clarks
Hill. The conductor, Charles By
field, Lafayette, identified a photo
graph as that of Shouse, who was
sentenced to the prison for twenty
five years for robbery.
Report this morning indicated the
convicts are doubling back on their
trail, police at Greencastle reporting
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