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%TWO MEN FLEE WAUSEON JAILTri-State Search Started For Heavily-Armed t PairWaiiseon, April 5—Two heavily armed prisoners escaped today i from the Fulton county jail In i j Wauseon.A tri-state police search was launched immediately for the ' two, Richard Weirauch, 22, Na-■ poleon, and Paul Battig, 20, Del-. ta.Sheriff Lester Irwin said the escapees are armed with four revolvers and rifles which he said ► were taken from a desk in the■ jail. Irwin said he believed the i prisoners received outside aid asa deputy found a door in the basement of the jail open when he reported for duty.Weirauch was being held on an automobile theft charge and Battig was awaiting sentence for housebreaking and forgery.
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The Crescent-News
Defiance, Ohio, US
Mon, Apr 05, 1948
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