The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-11


 Georgia authoriteis, the states most pampered" prisoner, he spent the last year in 8 private Atlanta hos pital at his family's expense guarded by guard" employed by his family and found conditions in the state prison such that he was able to woo and win Miss Vera Hunt, music teacher at the State college. She met him in 1883 when she conduct ed 8 recital at the prison. They were married in the Atlanta hos pital last spring.
 Seek Mrs. Gallogly
 Today Sheriff Shoot Schmid's deputies searched rooming houses for Mrs. Gallogly, having been informed that Georgia wanted her for aiding her husbands escape and that un- der Georgia law 8 person aiding a prisoners escape was liable to the prisoners Sentence-in this case life.
 Last week Gallogly, accompanied by his wife, his mother, Mrs, Worth Hankey, Atlanta society matron, his "guard", Roy Matthews, and regu- lar prison guard, Lee Freeman, was returning to state prison from the hospital. He produced what the guards took to be a pistol and ord- dered them and his mother out of the car. Then he and his wife fled. That was the last seen of him until he walked into the sheriff's office yesterday, saying: "Tell them I'm here, but I intend to fight extradi- tion."
 Had No Pistol
 Gallogly claimed that he had had no pistol, merely piece of cur- tain rod he had found in the hos pital. He escaped because he was being taken from the hospital back to prison where he would have no medical treatment. This meant the state was killing him, he said, be- cause he was tubercular.
 He said that he and his wife drove first to Atlanta, got Mrs. Gall logly,s car, then drove here.
 T fainted seven times from weak ness," he said.
 He displayed little weakness in jail, however, conferring soon after he surrendered with two of Texas outstanding lawyers-Harold Young of Dallas, and State Senator Jesse Martin, Fort Worth, who had been retained to fight extradition.
 Hard Fight Expected
 Apparently prepared for hard fight, Georgia Attorney General FL lis Arnall, accompanied by attaches of the Atlanta district attorneys office, was en route here.
 In 1928, Gallogly, then a student in Oglethorpe university, and a pal, George Harsh, embarked on a career of banditry "for a thrill". They killed Willard Smith, a clerk, while holding up a drug store. Harsh was sentenced to death. After two Gallogly pleaded guilty and accepted a life sentence. Harsh's sentence was then commuted to life.
 Gallogly told authorities here that he had been unjustly convicted because he hadn't shot Smith, that Harsh had and that Harsh had shot him only after Smith "had put a bullet into Harsh's stomach. |. He said he pleaded guilty only to save Harsh from the chair. Author ities had agreed to get his sentence commuted if he would. They as- sured him, he said, that he would serve no more than three years.
 But every attempt to get my stentence shortened failed" he said. Mothers social position stood in my way. They told me that Gov. Talmadge actually cried when they appealed to him, but said he could do nothing.
 q escaped because I knew every official in Georgia was afraid to mtercede for me because the public would say that it was political fix"