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Escaped Prisoners Narrowly Missed Jeil Opening
TORRINGTON Oct 10 Two of three men who escaped last night from the deputy jail in Litchfield remained at large today while the third was recaptured on the road between Goshen and Torrington. The at large are Jerry Gennette serving a one year term for assault in Waterbury and Frank McCall of Kent awaiting trial for theft of an automobile. The recaptured prisoner is Henry Freeman a Woodbury man charged with aggravated assault and theft. A fourth inmate Dewey Bull tried to escape but was blocked by a window opening Pry bars in a bathroom. Bull alerted the guard to the escape.
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Watertown
Frank McCall
Kent
Henry
Woodbury
Chary
Dewey Bull
Bull
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