Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-13
3 Recdptured
After S|ugging
Fairfax Guard
Jail Prisoners
Trapped on Roof
By County Police


guard at Fairfax County Jail
last night and escaped for a brief
breath of freedom.
The prisoners, who were re-
captured on the courthouse roof
within an hour. included two
charged with rape and a third
charged with contributing to the
delinquency of a minor.
The escape was the first from
the Jail which was built four
years ago.
The jailer. Deputy Sheriff
Richard Sauveur of ITO Gundry
drive, Falls Church, was treated
in Arlington Hospital for a cut
right hand. slashed by a safety
razor welded by one of the
prisoners. He also was treated
for head injuries suffered when
he was hit on the head with
something in sack"
Sheriff John E. Taylor identi-
fed the men being held for
grand jury action as Enoch
Roach. 10. of John Roberts
Homes. Alexandria, and Law
renee Bradham. 10, of the 400
block of Benson drive. Alexan-
Idria.
Girl Victim IL
They are accused Of raping
l7-year-old Alexandria girl last
lOctober. The girl suffered a brok-
len jaw and other injuries.
They were accompanied in the
break, Mr.. Taylor said, by Donald
Thompson. also 10. of Oklahoma
City, who was charged with con-
tributing to the delinquency of
a minor.
Mr.. Sauveur gave this account
of the escape:
Roach called him about 7:45
pm. from his third-floor cell,
saying he wanted to telephone
his mother about an automobile
transaction. The jailer let him
lout of the cellblock and accom-
panied him to make the call.
When they returned. T'homp-
son was out of his cell and in the
corridor. The two prisoners
showed Mr.. Sauveur into a cell.
He pushed Thompson back. and
Roach slashed at him with the
razor. cutting cash in his hand.
Then. Mr.. Sauveur was struck
ION the head and left in the locked
cell. He said he did not lose con-
seriousness.
Climb to Roof
Roach and Thompson let
Bradham out Of his cell, and the
three climbed q ladder to a trap
door to the roof. At the top Of
the fixed ladder. they forced a
lock on the trapdoor.
Shouts from Mr.. Sauveur and
from juvenile girls on the same
floor brought Sergt. James Maley
and other policemen. Mr.. Sau-
veurS keys were found on the
, floor. and he was released.
r A few minutes later. Justice Of
. the Peace l.. w. Munday noticed
, man sliding down drain pipe
) from the roof of the clerks
, Office wing. next to the Jail wing
! OF the courthouse. He called to
, Policeman Pat Burleson. who
was Just arriving on his motor
cycle. The prisoner. identified
as Roach. surrendered to the
policeman.
Area Searched
: Meanwhile, other policemen
; were making an intensive search
> of the courthouse and surround
: ing area. Sergt. Maley in the
sheriff's Office. spotted the other
> two prisoners on the roof of the
clerks Office wing. They were
!, brought in through a window in
the Sheriff's Office.
The School Board meeting was
in progress during the hunt.
Mr.. Taylor said all three would
be charged with escape. Roach
! and Thompson. he said. would
also be charged with felonlcus
e assault on the jailer.
The sheriff said it was not
learned how Thompson was able
), to get out Of his cell into the cor
ridor The cell doors had been
: checked mechanically within the
past month. Mr.. Taylor said
after one was found open. The
door apparently had been closed
and locked. he said. but paper
in the edge of the door permitted
it to be pushed open.
Thompson was one of four
Oklahoma youths arrested in
Falls Church last month after
the four took two teen-age Vir-
ginia girls on a crime spree in
which he and one Of the girls
!, participated in an Indian blood
marriage"
Two Of his companions have
been returned to their parents
and the fourth. John o. Mar
shall. was sentenced to 30 days
,. in Jail on a contributing charge
Marshall. who claimed to be
part Indian. admitted perform
} ing the blood rite ceremony in a
Falls Church apartment.