Evening star., 1935-01-17
GANG ROUNDED UP
AFTER JAIL BREAK
AT SAN QUENTIN
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Prison Terms and Paroles was lunch
ing with the official.
Holohan was slugged by Straight,
his skull fractured and his face badly
lacerated.
The board members-Frank B.
Sykes, chairman; Warden Atherton,
Stockton attorney: Joseph Stephens,
Sacramento banker, and Mark E.
Noon, secretary-were forced TO ex-
change clothes with the convicts and
herded into the warden's automobile
outside the house.
Two Prison Guards Seized.
Two prison guards were seized and
taken along as further protection.
Out the prisons rear gate, which
guards opened on threats of death to
the hostages, sped the car.
The alarm was spread quiuckly-hun-
dreds of officers from every nearby
district rushed to stop the fleeing
prisoners. Two Army airplanes from
nearby Hamilton Field took up the
chase.
Over the highways the convicts
darted 81 miles to the northward with
police streaming after them. The
trailing posse fired hesitantly for fear
of striking the hostages. Bullets
whined through redwood trees border
ing the highway as the convicts shot
back
The two abducted guards, Harry
Jones and c. L. Doose, and Noon were
released as the convicts sped toward
Valley Ford, where their car, its rear
tires shot away by the pursuing Of
flcers, went into a ditch.
The convicts hid in a creamery,
leaving the other members of the
prison board by the roadside.
Board Members Nearly Shot.
The first posses arriving nearly shot
the board members, thinking they
were the convicts.
"I'll shoot you, you dog!" shouted
an officer, leveling gun at Atherton.
Don't shoot - that's Atherton," I"
cried a companion.
The posse, led by Sheriff Max Blum,
then surrounded the creamery.
Straight poked his head out and
leveled gun at the officers. A wither-
ing burst of fire from their guns
dropped him, fatally wounded, and the
other convicts came out with their
hands in the air.
During the pursuit Sykes was
wounded In the hip and Stephens
grazed, but neither was seriously in
jured.
The prison board members were In
Holohan's dining room when the con-
victs entered.
Stand up. all of you." snarled
Straight, brandishing pistol.
The officials jumped up and Holohan
darted back into the smoking room,
where Straight slugged him. Landers
probably saved the official from fur
ther injury by pulling Straight on the
unconscious man, saying:
"Cut that stuff out!"
Wife Pleads for Warden.
The dramatic story of how Mrs.
Holohan, wife of the warden, begged
with the convicts to let her see her
husband, whom they had slugged into
inconsistencies, was told today by
Atherton.
He declared Mrs. Holohan came into
the dining room. shortly after her
husband had been numerically beaten
and while the convicts still held the
prison board at gun point.
Where is the warden?" Atherton
quoted her as saying. Let me go to
him. know he is hurt"
But one of the convicts replied:
Sorry, Mrs. Holohan, you can't go
to him now. Well be out of here in
couple of minutes. You can see him
then"
Atherton and Mrs. Holohan then
pleaded with the convicts to give up
their desperate break for freedom.
Mackay, one of the convicts, re-
piled, Atherson said:
We've gone too far now, Mrs. Holo-
han. It's the moose or freedom for us.
We're going through with it."
As the convicts left with their
hostages Mrs. Holohan went to her
husband. who had been propped up
in chair. His eyes were closed and
blood was streaming from his FORE
head.
Convicts Involve Stevens.
Capt. r. Smith of the guard said
his information of Stevens participa-
tion in the gun smuggling was cleaned
from questioning the four convicts, all
Of them classed as bad men" by
prison officials.
Smith said the firearms were hidden
in motor car driven by Department
of Public Works employe. The guns,
Smith said, were brought into the
prison and secreted in the prison car
penter shop, where Straight worked.
It was Sykes who asserted q convict
had told him Of the guard being in
volved In the plot to arm the prison.
ers, but Straight's companions In the
break denied 1t.