Evening star., 1934-01-19
SEVEN SCALE WALL
TO ESCAPE PRISON
Fleeing Convicts in Kansas
Include Two Who Made
Break Last May.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LANSING, Kans., January 49,
Seven convicts scaled the walls of the
Kansas State Prison here about 7 am
today amid fusillade of shots Two o.
those who fed were Bob Brady and jim
Clark, who were recaptured and re.
turned to prison after escaping with
nine others last Memorial day
Prison officials believed some of thu
convicts were wounded. No guard.
were hurt.
The convicts were believed to have
scattered into the timber surrounding
the prison and are not believed to bt
armed.
In their escape they used. as a rope, q
long piece of hose which they were U.s.
ing in their work.
Also aiding in their escape was q
hastily constructed ladder, made oi
scrap lumber.
All available prison guards were SEN
in search.
Milton r. Mclean adjutant general
Of the Kansas National Guard, ordered
out batteries of artillery at Fort Scott
and lola and troops Of cavalry from
Pleasanton and Coffeyville to guard
against the convicts gaining outlaw re-
treats in Oklahoma.
Group Reported Scattered.
Guards reported the fugitives scat
tered as they fled from the prison.
n ha
head for the Cookson Hills of Okla.
homa-familiar to both Brady anc
Clark-O. P. Ray. superintendent OF
the Oklahoma State Criminal Bureau
and two assistants left Oklahoma City
for Northern Oklahoma, armed with
machine guns.
He said Oklahoma National Guards
men would be called out if aid was
needed
There we're uncorfirmed reports con-
victS had been seen near Walcott anC
Victory Junction, not far from the
prison.
Guard Is Unframed
The convicts overpowered their guard
Clyde Deer. took his keys. locked him
in Cell House No. 2, but did not harm
him
In addition to Brady and Clark
those who escaped were:
Charles Clifton Macarthur, % serving
S to 10 years for second-degree burglary
with previous prison terms in Texas anC
Oklahoma In Oklahoma he was SEN
fenced to life for murder and paroled
Used Alias Calude Newton.
Fred Cody. 33, serving 10 to so years
for bank robbery from Morton County
Kans.: previous prison term from
Greenwood County, Kans.. for child de-
sertlon and assault to kill.
Tommie McMahan. 20, serving 20 tc
AZ years for first-degree robbery. from
Douglass County. Kans.. previously
served at State Reformatory for auto
theft
Frank Delmar, 80, alias Frank Bren-
nan, 20 years for second-degree muir
der, from Leavenworth County: pre-.
vious reformatory term for auto theft
Benjamin Young, 10. two to foul
years for jail break sent up from Har-
vey County. Kans.; previous term al
state Reformatory for motor car theft
Brady Critically Wounded.
Brady and Clark were captured last
Fall near Tucumcari. N. Mex. Brady
was critically wounded in an attempt
to escape. OF those who escaped ir
the Memorial day break, only Ed Davis
remains at large
The Memorial day escape was fol-
lowed by reign of terror throughout
the Southwest in which trail of muir
der, hdnapires and robberies were left
Death has ended the careers of two
OF those who participated in the Me-
mortal day break. Wilbur Underhill
desperado, was captured at Shawnee
Okla, December 80 and died a week
later in prison of wounds received as
he fed from officers fire
Kenneth Conn the other, was slain
IN bank hold-up.
Harvey Bailey, big name in South
west crime records and one of the lead
ers in the escape, is in Federal prison
at Leavenworth serving a life sentence
as one of the kidnapers of Charles F.
Urschel, millionaire Oklahoma oil man
Others Recaptured
Others who escaped, but who have
been captured and returned to cells. are
Lewis Bechtel, Billie Woods. Frank
Sawyer and Clifford Dopson and Alvie
Payton.
THREE CONVICTS KILLED