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Alfredo |Is GoneAh Copper Sleeps, Gaspipe Captive Flits Away from Poliee HeadquartersSTILL GOINGBloodhounds Fail to Get Scent of Hardware* Loaded FugitiveThe sad strains of the Prisoner’s Song are no more heard in the architecturally aesthetic city hall of Santa Fc.The gaspipe was inadequate ; and Alfredo Archuleta of Las Vegas, held by local police in connection with the Bell store robbery, burst his bonds in sunder early this morning and escaped from ■ l police headquarters, flitting j I away in the dawn or there- * after, accompanied by a j bunch of heavy hardware,! while the guardians of the j law slumbered peacefully. I Archuleta had been held incom-j munlcado at headquarters for the; past few days, his legs shackled, one i arm handcuffed and chained to an] Iron gaspipe full of gas. iHe got loose from the gaspipe j sometime between five and 9:30; o'clock this morning, leaped from! the window of Chief Tom Delgado’sNO CO-OPERATION SAYS SHERIFF“Complete lack of co-operation on the part of she city police was blamed by Sheriff Rom-ulo Lopez for ilw escape this morning of Alfredo Archuleta, held prisoner in the city hall.•‘No prisoners have escaped from the county jail, said Lopez.The police bring their drunks here, but as soon as they capture a man charged with a more serious offense, they attempt to hold him at the city hall. To my knowledge Archuleta is the second man to escape from there,'jfflce twenty feet to the ground, lit unning and has gone forth into the jrent, Elsewhere.Unless Archuleta has secured the services of a blacksmith, it is iikely le is rattling so loudly with shackles .hat he will eventually be heard iomewhere and located.Archuleta was being attached to the gaspipe pending reported efforts of he police to locate an accomplice.BLOODHOUNDS USED Bloodhounds from the state penl-.entiary were used this morning in i vain attempt to track the escaped prisoner. The dogs followed the trail or about 50 feet then lost It. Completely baffled, police threw a irngnet around the city, sent patrol i roaring to nearby towns and ifintoiHinges in searfch of Archuleta. Thoroughly bewildered, Chief Del- o,rA SUGGESTIONIt was suggested today that a committee of citizens, headed by a competent plumber and gas-fitter and representative of the chamber of commerce and service ciubs. co-operate with the police department and volunteer its services to the city to act us a Watching Committee or civilian guard for prisoners chained to the city hali gasplpes, It was pointed out that with a large committee, sub-committees could be detailed each night for the lonely vigil in the city hall, so that no one per-son would have to .sit up night after night.Sei i he ter ofado gathered some solace from | mc rchuleta's record, as the officers »k a brief respite from their futile tll( iarehing this morning. .. ;Hilt;••He had four aliases, Dclgauo »ic'. “Tonv Baca, Alfredo Aragon, I lfredo Trujillo, and Tony Gutierrez. ie was sent up to the state peniten- i u ary from Las Vegas twice; once for j ” rgery and once for burglary. ; “More recently he was rent up -or tenvcr to the Canyon City. ■ bio,, pen for burglary. He was pa-i sled, then given * 8C-d»y 1*11 sen-ice in I* Junta, Oolo. He escaped • n the Uttar place.’'lt;**• r»s« r*«i)felli
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Fri, Dec 11, 1936
Page 5
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