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Sawed Way to FreedomKSIR Escapers Held at GuymonBy CONNIE HARRISThree inmates who escaped from the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory Saturday were in custody Monday in Guymon. Okla.Local authorities were notified shortly before 5:30 a.m. that the trio had been arrested following a buglary at Hooker, Okla., a short distance away.The three are Daniel Hill, 28, originally sentenced from Johnson County for burglary and larceny; Gary Dean Farrar, 19, and Glen Henson, 23, originally sentenced from Barber County for forgery.All three have been convicted on prior escapes from KSIR, Authorities were unable to make positive identification of two of the three escapers immediately following their arrest.Hill gave his correct name, but Henson and Farrar identified themselves as a Billy Dry and Charles Dallam.Reformatory officials conferred by telephone with Oklahoma authorities before correct identities were established hrough tattoos and other distinguishing features.Circumstances of the arrest were not immediately clear. It was believed one of the escap ers was arrested in the car reported stolen Saturday night Irom near the Big M Truck Stop, and the two others were arrested in a car reported stolen elsewhere.The car stolen in Hutchinson belonged to Frank Dandridge, owner of the Big M restaurant.The escapers were first missed at the reformatory during a routine midnight count Saturday.They had escaped by cutting a bar from a basement window.lar manner Jan. 29, 1969. On that occasion, they sawed a bar out of a window and squeezed through a nine-inch space between the bars.Henson was arrested nine days later by police at Temple, Texas, at the, home of his father.He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a term of one to five years to begin when his original term expired.Hill was arrested 3 Ms months later at Natchez, Miss. He eventually pleaded guilty, but asked for a suspended sentence based on what he said were his actions in foiling a jaiibreak in the Reno County jail, where he was held prior to his guilty plea.Hill told District Judge James Rexroad he tipped the county jailer to the escape plot after bars had been cut with a hacksaw blade.His comments were confirmed by a sheriff’s deputy who had accompanied him to the courtroom.Rexroad agreed to suspend execution of the sentence for three years. Under this order, Hill would not have had to serve additional prison time if he stayed out of trouble for three years.Farrar and another inmate escaped in July, 1970, while working on an honor detail at the institution’s dairy barn.Both were taken into custody a week later by the police department in Wichita,Farrar pleaded guilty and was given a one to five year term to run concurrently with his original sentence.It was not immediately known if the three would be held in Oklahoma on burglary charges.Hill, Henson, and a third inmate escaped in a simi-1ChSo20(lOfNbatsinIpeithedirtratiowa
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Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Tue, Feb 16, 1971
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