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INDIANAPOLIS DETECTIVEShot lt;MolIN II DACE FOR RALPH LEEahilClaim Preference Over Tennessee toPrisoner Wanted for Murder of aGrocerymanTwo Indianapolis detectives won*Nashville from which he escapedwith fifteen other prisoners wliihserving a. sentence for highway robber*.is wanted in iiidiaiuipolis ona first decree murder chartre for thoslaying of a trroeoryman in a holdup.Twice he broke jail in Indianawhile awaiting trial for the murder.Tin* second time lit* escaped to Tennessee where he was arrested andconvicted of robherv a few weekslate:.Prosecutor Remv of Marion county communicated with New Yorkauthoriti-s a soon as he learnedthat Lee had heen arrested in Buf-fale.In a Jons: distance telephone conversation with the oflice of Governor Smith at Alhanv, Remv urired thatIndiana s claim to the prisoner Ikaiven precedenee over that of Tennessee.Reiny said he was eonfident LooWould be spven tlie death penalty ifreturned jo Indiana and tried.DALE MILLION LOSSis \millranramr ?*iboo;JIl vTESCAPED FROM PRISON I ofIndianapolis, Ind., April 21—lt;U.R — ^,01ill sTluispeeding to Buffalo, X. Y., today inan attempt to head Tennessee an- -1 °tliorities in the liirht for extradition! scharof Ralph Lee. alias Howard Barr,1 * | BMHVescaped convict. 1 r'Tennessee authorities want thej mlt; man returned to the Slate* Prison at ,nilt;^manF.rid(1 a v.
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Rushville Daily Republican

Rushville, Indiana, US

Wed, Apr 21, 1926

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