The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

Vivian Ewing after finding approx
mateIy ten bags of corn stacked
up and apparently ready for quick
transportation. He noticed nothing
untoward when he left the jail or
when he returned and saw no cara
which he was not able to account
for today.
Notifies State Police
Despite this fact, Ware insisted
that he heard an automobile pull
away from the public square, in
which the jail is situated, shortly
after Mason and his accomplices
clambered up four benches to the
opened window and slid approx
mately twelve feet down a length of
chain, taken from a cot in the cell
block, to freedom.
The sheriff notified state police
and nearby sheriffs Immediately,
and Charles Griffigan, Frank Zirkle
and Loran Grimm speeded from the
Pendleton state police barracks to
join the chase after the d~esperados.
Chances for catching at least some
of the escaped men we're viewed as
good by those participating in the
manhunt.
Ware told Sheriff Hattery and
state police a vivid story of the
escape.
He said he had been aware that
the other five men in the cellblock
with him-all the prisoners the
antiquated Jail held at the time
had been plotting something for
several days, but that he had been
unable to learn what they we're
planning.
Keep Laying There
Get away, old man." he quoted
them as warning him. He added
that he was too old, anyway" to
attempt an escape and that, having
lived in Sheridan all his life, he
felt he should not attempt it.
He said he awakened this morning
to find the four benches in the cell
block piled high against the wall
the window, which was
nine feet above the floor, while one
of the prisoners worked away with
saws.
Martin apparently was the first
to notice that Ware had awakened.
Damn you, lay there and keep
there" Ware quoted the Ne
gro as warning him.
i laid there" he added, explain
ing that the iron bar with which
Martin threatened him was approx
imately three and a half feet long.
He described Martin as the cell
block bully.
The place where the bar had been
from the floor had been con-
cealed so cleverly with false bolt
heads, made from the rubber heels
of n of the prisoners shoes and
stuck on with gum, that Sheriff
Hattery had not noticed it was loose
when he inspected the jail last
Two Saws Are Left
Il suppose they planned to use it
me If I walked in on their es-
Sheriff Hattery said grimly
this morning.
The men left two saws in their
One was new and apparent
ly had not been used. The other
showed the effects of its work on
the hard iron bars.
Whats the Use?"
What is the us of catching GRIM
mails if they stay in Jail for months
and then escape without trial and
sentence?" the sheriff asked indig-
Mason has been in Jail
eighteen months, first at Marion
and then here since June a
year ago."
The sheriff said that he had APP
Dealed to Governor Paul V. McNutt
% have Mason moved to Pendleton
as a safeguard against his escape
and the Governor had explained a
court order would be necessary.
This, Sheriff Hattery declared, was
refused by Circuit Judge F. E.
Hines.
Sergeant Jones was killed at the
Peoples Motor Bus Company barns,
Indianapolis, when his squad an
swered a report that there was a
fight there. He and two patrolmen
walked into the company's Office
.suspecting nothing worse than
dry Ia-ds and were met with a
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