Evening star., 1946-04-12
Jail Heads Told of Girls Link
To Gang Before She Struggled
Hocksows, House Probers Learn
Hearing on Mcfarland
Removal to District
Set for Tomorrow
BULLETIN.

Earl Mcfarland arrogantly
spurned food offered him for
breakfast in Knox County
(TennD Jail today and told
his jailers I'm not going to
eat that slop. You walk right
out of this jail and go into
that jail in Washington and
it's like walking into a hotel"
Mcfarland also revealed he
had fled to Knoxville hoping
to get enough money to leave
the country and join the
French Foreign Legion.
MCFARLAND spent day in the
movies after escaping from Jail.
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Captured as easily as he had
escaped eight days before, Earl
Mcfarland will face removal
proceedings in Knoxville, Tenn,
tomorrow preliminary to his re-
turn to District Jail and death
in the electric chair for the slay-
ing of 16-year-old Dorothy Ber-
rum.
There was every indication the
toW-headed 25-year-old former Ma
rine would be headed back this
week end to the Jail from which he
and Joseph D. Medley escaped the
morning of April 3.
Taken on a downtown street cor
ner in Knoxville by two Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents at
2:30 pm. yesterday, Mcfarland had
made the mistake most hunted Grim
inals make. He had returned to
the habitat of his childhood, seeking
assistance from the friends who once
helped him when they knew him as
a "likable kid" but an incorrigible
bad boy.
One Cent in Pocket.
Now a murderer instead of a
petty larcenist, Mcfarland didn't
get much help from his erstWhile
friends. The FBI caught him dressed
in blue denimS, with l cent in
his pocket, as he stood at the busy
corner of Gay and Magnolia streets
apparently waiting for a streetcar.
That streetcar never came, so Nc
Farland did not need to ponder
how he might ride it for a penny.
Instead, the FBI agents quietly con-
fronted him and Mcfarland just as
inconspicuously gave himself up.
Unarmed, obviously beWildered by
nearly a week of living in the open
like a hunted animal, he readily
admitted his identity.
Tipped off that Mcfarland was
on the streets, the agents were slow
~ cruising when they encountered
him. The rest was so easy it came
as an anticlimaX to the sensational,
manner in which Mcfarland ano
Medley fled the District Jail.
Held in 100000 Bond.
Taken before United States Com.
missioner H. M. Barnett on charges
of unlawful flight to avoid prosecu.
ton, Mcfarland protested remova,
and was held in 100000 bond.
Later he indicated he was ready
to go back and face the music, ;
but like Medley. when he was cap
tured eight hours after his escape
warned: "I'll try to escape again
At first the FBI held Mcfarland
in such high regard that Norman H
McCabe, agent in charge of the
Knoxville office, decided to have his
own men keep him under constant
surveillance. Later, however, he was
released to the custody of United
States Marshal Henry r. Bell, who
placed him under special guard in
Knox County Jail.
Tired and haggard, his boyish face
showing the strain of the hunted
Mcfarland talked freely with re-
porters about his criminal record
dating back to 1881, when he was
sent to State training school for
robblng a store at Jefferson City,
Tenn.
"My Goose Is Cooked"
MY goose is cooked and I'm ready
to go back to Washington, he said
then added his threat to try another
escape.
Mcfarland had eluded capture in
Washington in, the same effortless
(See MCFARLAND, Page A-5)