The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22
DILLTNGER PALS, CARRYING SOAP
GUNS. ARE SHOT DOWN BY RIOT
S0IJAD IN OHIO PENITENT[ARY
Trigger Man Clubs Down Guard Who
Brought Him His Lunch, Then
Frees His Companions.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 22-Using John Dilling-
er's wooden gun idea, Harry Pierpont and Charles
Maklev members of the late outlaws gang today at
tempted to escape from death row in Ohio peniten-
tiary and went down under shower of bullets.
Nakley died few minutes later of wound in
the right lung Pierpont shot in the spine, was in
serious condition.
The doomed men, armed with soap guns, coated
with shoe polish challenged riot squad of peniten-
tiary guards. There was a roar of gunfire in the
death cell corridor Both gangsters spun to the floor
The squad was summoned by guard ]. T. JONES'
who sat in death row lookout post and pushed
buzzer to signify trouble bringing the heavily armed
emergency squad racing to the scene
Pierpont and Makley escaped from their cells
into the corridor of death row after Pierpont had
beaten down guard who had brought him his lunch.
Perpont obtained the guards keys. He unlocked the
Icell of Makley. He then freed Russell Clark, con-
victed with him and Makley in the Staying of Sheriff
Jess L. Sarber at Lima in freeing John Dilinger from
the Allen county Jail year ago.
Clark was under sentence to life Imprisonment,
but was in death row for safety
The three Dillinger associates all were armed
with the crude soap guns They freed all but Of
the prisoners in the heavy-guarded 81" block ntim
idating two guards with the toy guns.
Meanwhile however, Jones' signal had brought
aid
PierpOnt Is Paralyzed
The milling group of doomed men retreated when
one voey from the riot squad guns brought down the
Iringleaders of the uprising.
Pierpont was reported to be partly paralyzed by
his spinal wound but was not in imminent danger of
death.
The riot started while Warden P E. Thomas was
toll
be 'lead" in the Lindbergh kidnapping case
Rushed to death row by buzzer signal signify
ing trouble the squad met the two gangsers as they
came out of their cells pointing the wooden guns.
Both Pierpont and Makley confronted them with
wooden pistols and shouted, "Stck EN- up" as the
guards rushed into 81" block in response to the
alarm.
The guards Immediately opened fire. The two
gangsters dropped
w. 0. Spriggs, member of the riot squad said:
Il shot directly at Pierpont at distance of twenty
feet. He took it in the head and fell"
Guard Harold Milestone was slightly wounded
in one hand by a ricocheting bullet.
Only this week, the Ohio supreme court heard
arguments for new trial for the two gangsters The
case was taken under advisement.
Pierpont and Makley are two of the few survv-
ing members of the gang Of the late John Dillnger
notorious Indiana outlaw.
|, Trial Was Spectacular
They were convicted at Lima, o., Of first degree
murder in the Staying of Sheriff Sarber who was shot
down in the office of the Allen county Jail year ago
this week by three men who delivered Dillinger
Dillinger had been in the jail but short tme
held on robbery charge
The killers walked into the jail early in the eve
ming and asked to see Dilnger. The sheriff asked
them for credentials. They opened fire.
The sheriff's wife and a deputy were locked in
the jail by the killers who obtained keys and iber
ated Dillinger.
Trial of the two men, who are said to have been
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