Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Escaped Prisoners
Plead Guilty.; Woman,
ManDenyHidingIhen

Arraigned before United State.
Commissioned Needham C. Turnage
Walter E. Watson, %, and Jane,
1senberg. %, today pleaded guilty
to charges of escaping from the
custody of a United States marshal
on the grounds of the District jail
last Wednesday. and were ordered
held for grand jury action. A third
man still is at large. ffsN1
| At the same time two men and a
woman with a total of los arrests
on their police records appeared be-
fore the commissioner on charges
of conspiracy to harbor escaped
prisoners.
william L. Osborn and Mrs. Clara
Hearn, both of 1923 Fort Dupont
street Sc, pleaded not guilty to
the charges and were released on
bond pending action Of the grand
jury. William r. Day, 1908 Ana
costa road Sc. was granted a
continuance until February IA in
order to obtain counsel.
All were arrested early yesterday
$500 Found on Prisoners.
1t. Joseph Shimon, chief detective
in the United States attorneys Of.
flee, who led the police who arrested
Watson and Isenberg said they hac
more than $500 in cash between
them. He said they told him they
could not remember how they came
by the money He also said the
theft of a safe from Walsh's Raw
Bar, 829 Upshur street NsWv two
days after their escape. had all the
earmarks of their work" and had
provided the leads that led to their
recapture.
Police thumbed through cards
going back almost 20 years to get out
the record of the three charged with
harboring.
Mrs. Clara Hearn, from whose
apartment the two fugitives emerged
iearly Sunday into the hands of the
United States attorneys detectives
has been arrested 66 times, accord
ing to police records She was SEN
fenced to prison for one to two
years in 1886 on drug charge
Her other arrests included charges
of soliciting, vagrancy and operat-
ing disorderly house, police records
showed.
Osborn was sent to the workhouse
for so days in 1923, charged with q
prohibition violation. Many of his
80 arrests had to do with the num-
bers racket. police said today.
Traced by friendships.
Day was sentenced to two to three
years in prison in 1888 on a charge
Of robbery. He also had stoler
property conviction in 1927, police
said. In all he had been arrested
seven times, records reveal. =.
Detective Shimon said that Day
recently had worked at painting
signs at the Walsh Raw Bar. He
was known to be a friend OF two OF
the escaped convicts. He also was
known to be a friend Of Osborn, the
detectives said.
Osborn was living at the Fort Du-
pont drive apartment, the detec-
tives said, and watch was put on it
Late Saturday night, he said, Mrs
Hearn was seen leaving the apart
ment. She was allowed to drive away
The detectives were hoping she
would come back with the fugitives
but she returned and re-enteerd
alone.
Shortly after midnight, Detective
Shimon said, Mrs. Hearn and three
men who proved later to be Osborn
Watson and Isenberg, came out OF
the apartment and got into the
automobile.
Detective Shimon, three Of his
men and a deputy United States
marshal closed in and arrested
them.
The prison clothes OF the two men
were found in a neat bundle in the
back of the car. the detective said.
Detective Shimon went upstairs
to the apartment and while he was
there answered the telephone. His
report on the conversation was:
A male voice: whats keeping
you?"
I Detective Shimon: "A fiat tire"
/ The voice: Shall come in?"
Detective fShimon: yeah, dc
that"
/ A little later, Detective Shimon
said. the bell rang and Day entered
He was arrested.
1 The detective said that Osborn
and Mrs. Hearn were to drive the