Evening star., 1944-01-03
Soldier Is Recaptured
-Four Others Held by
Police After Chase
Stolen Cars Figure
In Flight From JoiI;
Rood Block Fails

Pvt. Raymond Lee Mills, %, o1
Rockville, Md, who has been the
object of a State wide police
search since he escaped from a
Frederick Jail Christmas eve, to-
day was captured near Elktor
after State police ended a 28-mile
chase by ramming and wrecking
Mills automobile. Police arrested
four other persons who were ir
the stolen car. All were unhurt
Corpl. .John S. Landbeck said h,
spotted Mills on the Philadelphi;
road near Edgewood Arsenal, bu
was unaware of the drivers identity
When the officer attempted to pass
Corpl. Landbeck continued. tn,
other car attempted to ram. bu
Corpl. Landbeck averted a crasl
and. via radio, asked for a roae
block at Aberdeen.
Travelling between IS and IS mile
per hour, Corpl. Landbeck mad,
numerous attempts to pull abreas
OF the car, but in each instance tn,
driver swerved.
Road Block Fails.
The road block at Aberdee,
proved unsuccessful when the fee
ing car jumped ar eight-inch curb
mg into a grass plot separatin.
traffic lanes, cleared the blockade
went bacl. onto the road ant
jumped another curb, scatterin:
pedestrians on the corner. Stat,
Trooper Nathan Kaplan then joinee
the chase.
Speeding into Havre de Grace. tn,
fugitive tried without success to shak,
pursuers by weaving into side streets
Corpl Landbeck said, but returned
to Route 40. Riding abreast, two DO.
lice cars began to inch up to the 'rea,
OF Mills auto. Trooper Kaplan man.
aged to hook bumpers with tn.
stolen car, throwing it into a skid
and as it turned broadside. Corpl
Landbeck rammed the center ane
pushed 1t across the grass plot.
The officers leaped from the car.
ana captured the occupants, who
were identified as:
Mills, Dennis F. Abe, %, of Rich.
ardson Park, Del; his wife, Juanita
10; his sister, Carrie, 16, and Gerale
L. Robertson. 20, all of whom gave
The same address.
Four Held for Investigation,
The State police said Mills woule
be turned over to Frederick Count,
authorities. The other four were
held for investigation.
The soldier was jailed in Frederics
about two weeks ago on a charge OF
taking $43 from a filling station
He previously had escaped from a
Fort George G. Meade guardhouse
After saving his way out of Jail
Mills was spotted by police Decem-
Der q in Frederick County driving
stolen car. Accompanied by his
wife, Marjorie, Mills abandoned the
car at Burtonsville and then, ac-
cording to Montgomery County DO
lice, Mills drove another stolen car
INTO Laurel, where he abandoned it
In Laurel, police said, he fled in a
third stolen car, and left it at Sandy
Spring, where he escaped in a fourth
stolen car.
Meanwhile, his wife, who was ar
rested in the first car abandoned by
her husband, is being held in the
Rockville Jail in default of $1,000
bond on charge of unauthorized
use of an automobile. His mother
Mrs. Elsie M. Mills, who lives near
Sandy Spring, was arrested Thurs
day on a charge of being an acces-
sorry in the escape of her son from
jail. She later was released under
ST 900 bond.
Fort Meade authorities said Mills
escaped from the guardhouse No.
vember 13 after he had been locked
up on charge of being absent with
out leave.