Evening star., 1934-09-23
P|ERPONT T0LNE,
DOCTOR BELIEVES
GangSter Hurt in Riot, Fatal
to MakIey, Back in
Cell.

Icopvrisht. 1884 by the Associated Press)
COLUMBUS. Ohio, September 22.-
Bullets splitting from riot guns OF
prison guards killed one John Dill
linger gangster and wounded another
TODAY when they used weapons fash
toned from soap in an attempted
break from Ohio Penitentiarys death
row.
The effort to repeat Dillingers
wooden gun" getaway brought death
to Charles Makley and wounds to
Harry Pierpont. A guards hand was
grazed by a bullet.
Elaborate precautions taken by
Preston E. Thomas and his guards
since Pierpont and Makley were
brought here to await execution foiled
the effort of the pair to bluff their
way out
Where Dillinger's wooden gun"
cowed guards at the Crown Point,
Ind. Jail and enabled him TO walk to
freedom. the alert Ohio guards an
swered the threat Of the fake soap
weapons with lead.
Condemned to Die.
Makley and Pierpont had been con-
demned to die for the murder Of
Sheriff Jess L. Sarber of Lima. Ohio.
last October IL. The sheriff was slain
in a successful attempt of the con-
demned men and Russell Clark to
free their leader.
Makley died of his wounds within
an hour today. Pierpont was at first
believed seriously wounded but with
in five hours after the attempted
break was returned to his cell in
death row"
Everything was quiet in the prison
when the alarm bell sounded sud-
denly an ominous warning of trouble
shortly after 1870 am.
Warden Preston E. Thomas was
telling a group of newspaper men of
a letter to George Paullin. a prisoner,
more than two years ago by Bruno
Hauptmann, the German alien held
in New York as a suspect in the
famous Lindbergh kidnapping.
His story was broken off in the
middle. The alarm galvanized the
penitentiary'S emergency riot squad
into action.
Eight guards, armed with rifles,
rushed toward the death house,
whence the alarm had come. Within
a minute. the word was flashed back
tn the warden's Office, "Makley and
Pierpont have been shot"
Tried to Force Door.
They had tried to break down a
steel door at the end of the cage out
side the death house" after over
powering a guard and taking the key
to their cell from him.
Flourishing pistols. later found to
have been fashioned of soap, they
had released nine other occupants OF
death row" including Clark, who
drew A sentence of lie Imprisonment
for his part in the Sarber killing
Deputy Warden J. c, Woodward
told the story of the break:
Two guards were in the death
house when the attempted break was
made o. E Slagle was inside the
cage within which are the death cells
"A guard. c. w. Pfarr, was seated
on a table outside the cage. A guard
j. T. Jones. was in a little room sep
arating the death house from the L
cell block.
'Slagle was in the cage putting a
meal into Pierpoint's cell. Pierpont
told him he did not feel good and
wanted some salts
Hit Guard With Fist.
"As the guard turned away from
the cell door. Pierpont hit him with
his fist and said: Give me that key.
"Slagle refused and Pierpont struck
him again and took the key away
from him. He then produced his own
gun made of soap and marched down
the cage and unlocked Russell Clark S
cell door.
They then opened all the cells and
turned loose all eight men in the
death house.
"Makley had a small soap auto
matte. while Pierpont had a soap re-
yolver.
These desperate convicts then
backed the two guards toward the
steel door behind which Jones was
fortified
They had to get past Jones forth
f1cation before they could reach the
open cell block. They broke a big
table into pieces and tried to smash
their way into Jones.