Evening star., 1942-05-28
Police Capture
Jail Fugitive;
TwoStiI|f
Rockville and State
Officials Press
Hunt for Pair

Clifton Yokely, one of three pris-
oners who slugged their guard and
escaped from the Rockville Jail
Tuesday night, was captured behind
a hedge in Germantown, Md, last
night and police continued a wide
spread search today for the remain
ing two, believed to be the more
dangerous Of the three.
Yokely, who had been serving an
assault sentence, was believed TO
have gone to his home between Ger
mantown and Boyds before his cap
ture because he was wearing differ
ent clothes than when he escaped,
Montgomery County Police reported.
That the prisoners had worked out
a plan to confuse police was indi-
Gated by statement which Yokely
was quoted as making after his cap
ture.
Prisoners Separated.
AS soon as the prisoners made
their way from the third floor Jail
to the basement in the County Court
House they separated and Yokely
walked to Germantown over the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks,
distance of about nine miles, police
said
Police maintained a watch near
the home of Yokely's parents, but
failed to catch him there.
Detective Corpl. Gassaway Lin
thicum and Pvt. j. b Day of the
county police discovered him about
10 pm. behind lown hedge. He
was wearing suit, but had worn a
khaki shirt and trousers when he
left the Jail, police declared.
Still free are James Anderson, II,
of Glen Echo, who was to be tried
Monday at Hagerstown on charges
of criminally assaulting a Govern
ment worker at her Glen Echo
home. and Andrew Foster, 81, of
Takoma Park, charged with the un-
authorized use of an automobile.
Anderson Believed Armed.
Although an interstate lookout
had been broadcast, the search yes
terday was conducted chiefly be-
tween Sugar Loaf Mountain in
Montgomery County and North
Beach on Chesapeake Bay.
A police radio warning broadcast
to police Of Prince Georges County
and No. II precinct said Anderson
may be armed and will use gun"
At the time of his arrest at his
Glen Echo home in February, An
derson engaged in gun battle with
Montgomery County police, one bull
let narrowly missing one Of the ar
resting officers.
State police were summoned to
North Beach by Patrolman Walter
F. Allen, but found no trace of the
two youths who Patrolman Allen
said might be members of the trio.
Mr.. Allen arrested two youths late
Tuesday night at dance hall when
he became suspicious of their be-
| havior. They were held in the
town hall jail overnight but were
released yesterday.
Reported Several Places.
Later, when the patrolman saw a
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newspapers he said he believed
Anderson was one of the prisoners
he had held.
Capt. Henry c. Haddaway. North
Beach police chief, led searching
party of police and volunteer fire.
men after the youths were reported
seen in various places around the
resort and nearby Chesapeake
Beach, but the search was aban-
doned last night after a police
broadcast that the pair had been
seen hitch-hiking toward Wash
ington.
Three carloads of State and
Montgomery County police rushed
to the foothills of Sugar Loaf Noun
tain earlier yesterday to organize a
posse to search for youths, one of
whom repeatedly answered the de-
scription of Anderson. The search
was abandoned as futile later.