The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-02
Marion County Youth Hurt,
Trapped in Woods,
Is Belief.
NAB FOURTH POTTER
Reformatory Inmates Fail
in Daring Bid for
Freedom.
By CARL THORBAHN
Times staff Writer.

PENDLEION, Ind, July z.
Believed to be wounded,
Darrell Paul Jones, who had
spent the last four of his %
years in the Indiana State Re-
fOrmatory, was at large this
afternoon. hunted by a hum
dred men.
He escaped early today in hail
Of riot gun bullets that killed one of
his companions and wounded an-
other so badly that he could not
follow Jones to the precariouS free
uom of a fugitive Another of the
band was captured unframed. Jones
was convicted in Marion County.
Guards from the refOrmatory and
a posse of citizens are beating all
patches of woods near the institu-
ton in the belief that, wounded, the
convict could not travel far and
probably is hiding in exhaustion.
Kentuckian Is Killed
The dead youth Is Simon Dyer,
"a. a Kentuckian whose adult life
has been closely involved with shoot
ing to kill. His step-father was
killed in their Kentucky home by
another of his sons as a result of
dispute over some moonshine whisky.
Dyer himself was sentenced to
the reformatory for voluntary
manslaughter. He and a companion
walked drunkenly up to a motorlSt
who was awaiting the passing OF
railroad train at a crossing in
Marshall County. They got into an
argument with him and shot him
dead before the eyes of his mother
and two sisters, who were passen~
gers ia the car. He had been SEM
fenced to 2 to 81 years and had
done four years time.
The dying convict is Robert Nc
Allister, Il, of Terre Haute, whC is
doing 10 years for a robbery In
which his step-father was shot md
killed by police when he attempted
to escape.
Killed Negro Inmate
MCAllister has been a surly con"
vict since his Incarceration in March
of this year. He killed Negro Inc
mate in a brawl in the dining room.
Robert Sanders, the captured
member of the quartet, couldn't
take it when the guards began
shooting and they found him trer-
bling behind a part Of the wall, safe
from bullets. He is doing to 10
years for auto theft and he is only
10. He was committed IN March OF
last year.
The convicts gained the outer
court through the wash room which
serves the dormitory, reaching the
ground by means of a rope they
fashioned from bed sheets.
AS they came to the wall inside
the grounds near the administration
building. Guard Ralph Wright COM
manded them to stop. When they
refused he opened fire with his riot
gun.
Faces Grilling Today
Superintendent A. F. Miles said
today that he would make a
thorough investigation Of the escape
and indicated that dormitory guards
might be disciplined for permitting
the men to escape from the build.
ing. !
Sanders was placed in solitary
confinement and will be questioned
later today.
TIE dormitory from which the
convicts escaped is an inside build
ing and none Of the windows 10
barred, Mr.. Miles said.
The prison records Of Dyer, Nc
Allister and Jones showed that they
we're unruly prisoners, while Sam
ders had never before attempted any
disturbance. Mr.. Miles said.
Floyd Gillaspy, Is, Bloomington,
trusty, stole truck and escaped
from the reformatory yesterday
afternoon. Mr.. Miles said that there
was no connection between the two