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SOTORIOOS 30IPA8I08S)ook County Jail; Chicago, Scene of One of Most Sensational Jail-Breaks in Years; with “Lucky Tommy” in Lead, Prisoners Fight Way from Fifth Floor to StreetPRISONER WAS TO DIE THURSDAY(By The Associated Press)r^HICAGO, Dec. 11. — Tommy O’Connor, two-gun man, L-lt; sentenced to be hanged next Thursday for murder, and wo other notorious criminals today escaped from the county ail, fighting their way past half a dozen guards, most of rtiom were beaten into unconsciousness by the desperadoesn their dash for liberty.Starting in the fourth floor “bull pen,” where the prison-rs were exercising at 11 o’clock this morning, the break for ireedom led down five floors into the basement, into the jail rard and over a 12-foot wall to a street, where an automobile p/as confiscated. The driver, a pistol pointed to his face, ms:o!d to drive like hell.:A few minutes later the ma-hine crashed into a telephone ole, but the bandits continued :ieir flight. O'Connor eom-landeered another car, and /hen last seen the murder, /ho has been characterized by he police as Chicago's most esperate gunman, was headed oward the southside underworld anhed for cattle. Two ther prisoners who attemptedi escape ■with the trio tvera captured the jail grounds?.President to Have Political IV!embers of Cabinet to Support Him in Fight TO WAGE WAR'ON BLOCSExecutive Sounds First Noteof Warning in Address atThe escape. carried out in broadlv light, was the most sensational m » ^part of the country- iij/mauy ^ Opening of COIlgieSS. ...yirs, apparently was carefulljlanned in advance- It was «ucgrss-i! despite the fact that several jail's refused .to heed the threat of ’Connor's pistol and risked their /es in trying- to obstruct his dash ir liberty.The two men who escaped with ‘Connor were Edward Darrow, larged with a $00,000 robbery, and Lme3 Laporte. alleged to have been a plicated in a $30,000 robbery. ■Connor had been in trouble withie police on many occasions, but his pparcnt immunity from conviction irncd him the title of “Lucky ommy.Killed PolicemanLast spring half a dozen detectives mt to O’Connor's house to question m about a crime. While they were ere Policeman Patrick U'NeiU was int and killed and O'Connor, later nvicted of the murder, escaped sspire the presence of half a dozen Xicors, most of whom wyro sus-•ndea for their apparent negligence. A fur several weeks. Tommy’s pro-■rbial luck failed, for he was rap-red in St. Fan], 31 inn., brought back sre. convicted, and sentenced to3eventy-flvft prisoners were exer-iing in the bull pen when O’Connor cl his pala made their break. David rauss was the only guard in th* dm at the time. One of the men. cording to Strauss, suddenly jispcred something to O’Connor, if: five prisoners In the jail slmul-(Continued an Page 2. Column 1.)BY ROBERT T. SMALL.Correspondent of the Journal-Gazette {Copyright, 1321, by Tho IntirnnJ-GfwUo.lWA.S!lLNMTO:\r. Do-. it—Harding has started a fight for the relfef of the Hnpublican party.In this fight Um President is to have the support ol the political members of his cabinet, of John T: Adams, chairman of tht: Republican Nationalcommittee, and of all the wnee. horses of the Grand Old Party.The tight is to be waged against the so-called “blocs*' in congress which already have had such a disintegrating Influence upon party discipline. party control and party accomplishment 'The Fresldnnt soundea his iirsi note of warning In his address at the . opening of congress, and Secretary o' War Weeks took up the cudgels m ail address in New York on Thursday In winch he did not mince words.Secretary Weeks went so far as to Intimate that a return to Cannon-ism*’ could he contemplated with equanimity us a,means of more effective Legislative action.Theno cure keen political observers who see In the attempt of the “blocs” to assert complete control over tno congress a reflection of world political conditions. Party government w breaking down, or has broken do^i'. in nearly all of the free cotintries, governments are enabled to stay in power only by making compromisaarrangement? and juggling a win-bi nation of loosely-xied political elements. .Bavid Lloyd George, one of the
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Mon, Dec 12, 1921
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