The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-23
MASON ELUDES
POLICE NET AS
PAL IS CAUGHT
0riskeII. City Youth Held
on Car Theft Count,
Nabbed Here.
HUNT ALLEGED KILLER
Police of u. S. and Canada
Join in Search for
Staying Suspect.

States and Canada today were on
the watch for william H. CWillie)
Mason, "a. Kentucky rOwdy accused
Of the machine gun murder Of In
GianapoIis' Police Sergeant Lester
Jones. following the capture here
of one Of the four men who escaped
yesterday with Mason from the
Hamilton county Jail. Noblesville.
The man captured is Lowell Dris-
KEEL p indianapolis.
Driskell. held at NobleSville on
captured without a struggle when
he appeared at the corner of Twen-
ty-fifth street and Central avenue.
a spot he had frequented for years.
He had not eaten since the sensa-
tiOnal jailbreak and surrendered
almost gratefully. His captOrs
treated him TO a steak dinner with
spinach as an added attraction.
Sheriff Frank Hattery arrived
from NOblesville a short time after
Driskel's arrest and returned the
young prisoner to his antiquated
Jail
Driskell told local police he had
no idea where MasOn-Or any of the
three others who fled with Mason
and Driskell-had gone. He said
that he and Mason separated as
they fled down an alley near the
jail in Noblesville.
Mason went one way and Driskell
and Paul Mckinney. 20. TT. Wayne,
under a three-tO-ten-yea sentence
for HOUSEKEEPING. headed toward
indianapolis. Mckinney left Dris-
keu near CastletOn. the latter said.
Calls for Suit
The others who participated in
the break were John Martin. SO,
Negro. Indianapolis. who was to
have begun a One-tO-ten-year SEN
tence IN the Indiana state prison
yesterday for stealing cars, harness
and chickens. and Frank Wallace,
so. KOkOmO. held on a theft charge.
Police here got their first word of
Driskeu when. a few hours after the
break. a dry cleaning establishment
where the prisoner had a suit re-
Ceived a telephone call to deliver it
to an address on College avenue.
A squad car rushed to the address,
only to learn that persons living
there knew nothing of the call. Dris-
keI. or some one phoning for him,
apparently had planned to inter-
cept the delivery boy.
Next word came early in the eve
ming when persons reported his
presence at the corner where he
finally was captured. Again squad
cars went into action. but Driskell
had vanished when the first police
men arrived.
Stories in Conflict
Lieutenant Donald TOOley and
his squad kept watch. however. and
Driskell walked into their hands
The prisoner said his first knowl-
edge Of the escape came when he
was awakened by the noise made
by the other prisoners in preparing
for their escape. He refused TO say
who had the hackSaws used in the
flight.
His story is in conflict with Mon
roe Ware. 68. Sheridan. held at No
bleSville on an arson charge. who
told a Times reporter yesterday
that he had Known the men were
plotting something for several days.
Ware was the only prisoner left
in the NobleSville Jail at the time
Of the break. Aged. he wa. not
taken into the fugitiveS' confidence
and they threatened him with an
iron bar 10 assure his silence. he
said.
Served One Term
The pisOner arrested here has
served one term on the Indiana
state farm and has been arrested
previously on vehicle theft charges.
Mason apparently had made good
his escape. Though DriSkells story
indicated Mason was without the
traditional waiting friends III high
powered motor car. no trace of him
was found by Sheriff Hattery's aids
and a state police detail which
searched infinitely the country sur
rounding NOblesville-
II is believed that the men had
more than two hours TO get out of
that city before their escape was
discovered.
Detective Chief Fred Simon of
the indianapolis police and Cap
tain Matt Leach Of the Indiana
state police Immediately circulated
the alarm for Mason all over the
United States and Canada.
Police Phones Used
The word that he had escaped was
flashed over the state at dawn yes
terday by the inter-police commun-
icatiOn system devised by Al
Feeney. state safety director. which
uses the phone system between
various state police barracks.
Sergeant Jones was shot down
without warning in the Peoples Mo-
tor Coach Company'S barns Feb. z,
1888. when his squad answered an
alarm that there was a fight there
and surprised a gang Of bandits in
the course Of a hOldup. Mason
was captured some time afterward
in a luxurious gang hangOut III a
typical. old southern mansion near
Granger. Ky.
II Drown in Bus Mishap
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