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tInin-lotle-in-inen.msateithtedioner,ofsrerersi-:beating:he)00[ayme0,~ingon.?esid-51-ofMURDERER OF POLICEMAN IS BACKIN JAILLouis C. Vandervoort, Escaped Convict, RecapturedLONDON, O.—Officials of .the London prison farm announced today that Louis C. Vandervoort, 36, slayer of a policeman who escaped from the institution last Wednesday, had been captured near Springfield and returned here.Vandervoort was said to have been found by W. B, Thomas, * farmer, m his barn, a mile and a half northwest of Tremont City. Thomas was said to have notified the Clark county sheriff’s office which sent deputies last night to take the fugitive.The three convicts who escaped with Vandervoort from the prison’s hospital ward were captured previously, Charles Adomack, 41, Cleveland, was captured the same day and Nathan King, 47, of Toledo, and Harold Curtner, 39, of Troy, were taken by railroad detectives in Lima last Friday evening.Weak From HungerVandervoort, suffering from tuberculosis, was in weakened condition. _ He injured his knee while escaping and apparently had little food in his four days of freedom. He was unshaven and extremely nervous. He still was wearing- the prison overalls.He was taken, to the hosptial and later was to be put in solitary confinement.Vandervoort was convicted of killing a night policeman^ during a robbery at Wilmington in 1922.Vandervoort and the others used a home-made toich to cut thru window bars and used an improvised gauze rope to slide to the giound. Vandervoort, like the others, burned his hands in sliding down the rope.Sheriff George Benliam of Clark county reported that Vandervoort was arrested by Chief Deputy Russell Shirk and Deputy Edward R. Baker. The fugitive was identified at the Jail in Springfield.Dog Gives Away Vandervoort was said to have been hiding m a haymow w the bam. A dog’s barking led to his discovery. The deputies found him cowed He had a stick which he apparently used as a cane rather than-a weapon,C. A Keifer. chief clerk at theAprison farm, said Vandervoort wlt;*s “m sorry condition” when returned to the institution this morningOfficials said he had $8.23 anda penknife m his pockets when captured He was to be questioned later to determine where he gotthe money.He also had two ears of com. He was quoted as saying he had been living largely on stolen com and farm pioduce. the The three men who escaped £h with Vandervoort also were placed m solitary confinement.Authorities today continued then' search for Leslie James Lee, 31 slayer of a private policeman durmg a Dayton robbery m 1934, and Ephriam Weils, 30, convictedof oori-s-upporl in Marietta, whov aiked away fiom the prison farm while helping to unload hay Sat-uiday.!SnilsI38.m~er-inglorinofles:r-lerlermetheis-ird^y-ieral-pRprrepepalcpeeupaenVici-uaer.neP?pewcwspllt;th:fOJanni«pi;VHoilchanuntoenmlt;fngawlremimian
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Coshocton Tribune
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Mon, Aug 07, 1939
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