Evening star., 1934-09-22

steel door behind which Jones was
fortified.
They had to get past Jones' forti-
fication before they could reach the
open cell block. They broke a big
table into pieces and tried to smash
their way in to Jones.
They were using Pfarr as a shield
against Jones rifle.
Jones. who has nothing more than
q peek through the steel door,
quickly sensed the trouble and sounded
a general alarm.
The riot squad, always held ready
in the main guard room, rushed to the
L-block where they found Pierpont
and Makley leading an assault upon
the door.
The riot squad lined up, the door
was flung open and as Pierpont and
Makley poked their false weapons to-
ward the guards the guards opened
fire.
One Guard Wounded,
"Pierpont and Makley dropped in
stantly before the first volley, and
one guard was wounded in the hand
as he attempted to get into the death
house"
Order was quickly restored. Guards
were thrown around the outside walls
and the inside additional guards were
called to duty to guard against any
possible outside help getting into the
men who sought freedom.
The other six men in the L-block
quickly were returned to their cells,
none Of them apparently injured by
the rifle fire.
Pierpont Is Critical.
Pierpont was said to be in serious
condition. An operation was per-
formed in an effort to save his life.
Both men were awaiting the out
come of their appeals to the Ohio Su-
preme Court from their sentences of
death for the Staying of Sheriff Jess
Sarber of Allen County last October
IL. The court heard the case this
week and took it under advisement.
Bullets to Be Examined.
Prison officials said it was impos-
sible to determine which of a half
dozen guards who responded to the
riot call fired the bullets that brought
the two condemned men down. An
examination Of the bullets will have
| to be made to determine this, they
said.
w. c. Baldwin, q member of the
emergency squad, explained his part
| in the break:
I'VE got the buzzer call from L block
and the eight of us (the members of
the emergency squad dashed into the
yard" he said. About minute later,
I'd say, we saw the men standing in
the doorway.
II shot five times at Pierpont. The
others were shooting.
ground"
To Amanda Thomas, daughter OF
the warden, the desperate attempt to
break for freedom was not unexpected
Pierpont Depressed.
'I've always said" she said, "that
this would end in fireworks. I knew
there would be trouble over them"
Pierpont, Miss Thomas said, has
been depressed for the last week. He
had the blues" apparently, she said,
because he felt his former sweetheart,
Mary Kinder, was slipping from his
grasp.
Pierpont did not write a letter yes
terday. That, Miss Thomas said, was
unusual. for both Pierpont and Max
ley wrote nearly every day.
"The first of the week Pierpont
wrote Mary a letter, saying he wished
it were over. He had the blues, "
she said.
Mary Kinder, who at one time
passed as Pierpont's wife, had been
working in Chicago, and had not
written Pierpont often lately, Miss
Thomas said.
Clark was kept in the death row.
because, the warden said, II wanted
to keep him from originating any
thing" AS far as could be learned,
however, Clark did not help plan the
break.
The attempted break came as War.
den Preston E. Thomas was divulgine
to newspaper men a possible link with
prisoner in the penitentiary to
Bruno Hauptmann, suspect in the
Lindbergh kidnapping case.