Evening star., 1936-06-08
TROOPS PSHUNT|NG1 A
CRAZED FELONS IN
MINNESOTA BREAK
Member of KarpiS-Barker
Gang in Group Sought in
River Bottoms.
s GUARDS ARE TRAPPED
AND BEATEN IN ESCAPE
Six Flee in Communicated Auto.
Nearby Homes Barricaded
by Residents.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
ST. PETER, MINI, June 8 P).-
Identification Of two men captured
at st. James, so miles from here,
today, as members Of the is Grim
inally insane men who escaped
from the State asylum Sunday, re-
duced the number still missing to
II.
BY the Associateo Press.
ST. PETER, Mimi, June 5.-Ma-
chine gunrers beat through brush ard
sWamps in the Minnesota River bot
toms today in a hectic search for a
crazed Karpis- Barker gangster and
13 other escaped inmates of the GRIM
inally insane ward of the st. Peter
State Asylum.
The mobster. Lawrence de Vol, con-
victed bank robber and murder sus-
pect, helped engineer the spectacular
break last night. Slugging five un-
armed guards, 16 prisoners fled, but
two promptly were caught.
At least six of the convicts-most
of them branded killers or robbers
got away from the prison grounds in
a commandeered automobile. Several
others were reported picked up in an
other machine, but authorities con-
centrated their efforts in the river
fats. The Minnesota River skirts the
asylum. Dense woods provided ready
cover.
Machine Gunners in Search.
Participating in the search we're 35
members of a machine gun company
of the 205th Infantry, called out by
Gov. Floyd B. Olson when word Of
the break was flashed TO his country
home at Gull Lake, 200 miles north
of here
Fifteen of the felons trapped five
guards in the second floor criminal
ward, beat them into submission with
chair legs. locked them in a room and
slid down a fire hose to the ground.
They then scaled a 10-foot steel wall.
The delivery was discovered by
first-foor guard, Arthur Danielson.
Before he could act the last of the
prisoners, Frank Gibson, former
Texan and murder suspect, fed.
The beaten guards, forbidden by
asylum rules to carry arms, were
quickly subdued when inmates swung
the chair legs. None was seriously
injured.
Tools Taken From Supply Room.
Five prisoners, apparently by pre-
ARRANGEMENT. simultaneously ap-
preached the guards individually.
After the guards had been seized the
other criminals surged from the ward,
seized tools from supply room to
pry loose a barred window and a fire
hose on which to descend.
Warned by an alarm, residents Of
the area barricaded their homes
against invasion. Authorities ex-
pected the fugitiveS to try to steal
automobiles and obtain clothing, since
all were without coats or hats when
they fed.
State Board of Control members in
dicated an investigation would be
launched as soon as the roundup is
completed.
De Vol was transferred last Decem-
Der from Saltwater State Prison. where
he was serving a life sentence as a
participant in the 100000 daylight
robbery of the Third Northwestern
National Bank in Minneapolis in 1882.
The hold-up brought death to three
persons. including two policemen.
Hold-up Slayer Among Fugitives.
Among the other fugitives was an
other lifer brought to the asylum from
Saltwater, Albert (Scarface) Sareko.
sentenced for the Staying of Peter
Hoffman in a Minneapolis theater
hold-up November %. 1880.
Others who escaped included Tom
de Largo, alias Holloway, q, robber
believed by officials to have been 3
leader in the break; Adolph Walworth,
IS; Tony T. Smith, Sc; Wilburt Joris-
sen, %, and Donald Reader, q. a
Missourian, all listed as robbers; WAL
ter Horstein, "a. admitted on a second
degree murder charge; Percy Kenosha,
20. an Indian committed under the
dangerous practices law; William Lam
nenji of Lamnei and George fremont,
described as auto thieves; Lawrence
Leonard Gunderson, 35, sent up as "a
dangerous person"
The other fugitive was David
Rhoades. Ben Drussell and William
O'Neil we're recaptured.