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Y, JANUARY 1, 1927.MildRALPH LEE»IBECOMES M A RELATi:Juir a 11*1BREAKS JAILTENTHCOUNCIL It J. E. Berard, TIME strangled to lt;1week ago, wa-radio, dr inTHOMAS SNEDEGAR AND WILLIAM ROWE ACCOMPANY NOTORIOUS JAIL BREAKER.i in| jacket and tak aril was talkir home about hi he suddenly be The body of stuffed behind/cmvj!-W EKE HELD AT FRANKLIN found by her- husband. TheSued eg a r Taken Into Custody Here When Still Wan Found In Farm Home Rented by Him.well lvances.pictoFANS iaocais isINTEFinceGC -i;iulS.Tothe police wa. boarder that 1 ! talking to a “__afternoon of hWilliams has When Ralph Lee, jail breaker ex- ba|1(J sayi„Kr hI raordinary. took French leave of the person artumghastile at Franklin Friday night, lie wn accompanied by two other inmates, Thomas Snedcgar of Greenwood, and William Rowe, of Indianapolis. Lee was awaiting tiial for the murder of Abner Peck, who operated a grocery store near the Speedway at Indianapolis. Snedegar and Rowe were both being held‘pending tiial for possession of liquor.Snedegar, was first taken into custody two years ago when Sheriff Leslie Sears and his deputies discovered a still ir. the upstairs of a firm residence in Floyd township! -which w. rented by th • Greenwood HO.000 TO Wman. H ease went to the Putnamcircuit court where he vas found guilty and was fined an 1 sentenced.Attorney ; appealed the case to thestate supreme court and recently the*court upheld the decision ff the lower court. Snedegar then appealed toGRIIA LA H A M A S I BALL GAMROSEFew Wagers I Outcome ai Evthetr.PASADENAthe Unite I States supreme court blit fn P«*s®de was being held in custody.Ralph Lee’s delivery from theJohnson county jail is his tenth es- stanfor,|,‘s (aiwest, clash inwhere Alahai champions ofLI aMidyearandi-nrytheandcape from confinement.Lees criminal record began when In? was 13 years old, according to da a in the office of the Marion c unt\» prosecutor. He was convict-hall classic of A record au paid to witness lt;f roses battle*N I f I11ing been madetest on a nati* Normal Sot. . . a,l,i'. in H i,ii, i( lt;•lt;1 in 11*1 I on a burglary charge and ovpr th(jr )afjjtermed to the Indiana boys’ schoolPlainfield, and after serving ninemonths escaped.I-i 11114 he was convicted of steal- tber, which me ii buggy at Bluffton, attacked the prevailed for t jailer and escaped. In 11)16 he was wav fav r,.,) | entencni at Colville, Wash., to the opposing play Wa; hington stale reformatory. He cu.stomod to wsquads compliuitLit 1e.-^-aped S'pt. 23.Convicted of robbery in Tombstone, A novo Seco, Arihe served three years and fiesta is being seven months of a five to twenty- The Dixie Clfive-year sentence in the state pris- Alto warriorson, and then violated a parole.He escaped from the Indiana stateeven terms. Sislight udvantafarm at Putnamville in 1923, after its vatied andthe master f.cl■erving sixty days.lb* was sei vjnced to the Indiana flfu'«lin^r play t ref amatory Oct. 13., 1923, from one 1,1I South*-1 to fourteen years for the burglary j wa out' i the $Indiana)M»lis Toilet and Apron p*Khb pounds Supply Company, 933 East Market f*n*'ive record tree'. He cscaed April 26. 1924,the country.Hwhile employed as a painter on the h-ven tharhty|* itifit has encoun Alabama pa ing 10 to 8 od poiters hut thThere were f« these at eveninpos-ar-Deserte*€ r*f#rjfc* , anAtI U|ca r.MARSH Mr ItlYorNCV.»hOorge L. JDanvers, deneMarine post itaeIN(.1 f In r-o ntloc 11kV tb * Ilt; ■ I . . tit1A X * Iftefoimatory grounds.I.n* was apprehended at the home of hi- mother, Mrs. May Lee Mc-II' aiu, to50 Noith Cornelius avenue,1 was returned.\gain on May 19, I/»e broke away from guards and was at large when \Oner Peck, Splt;edway City grocer, wa.- killed, July 4, 1924. Lee was Mann d for the killing which occurred in the c ui-e of a daylight holdup..H was arrested in Seattle, Wash.,Sept. 23, 1924. and charged with a •tries of filling station and grocery r ihheriPs. At that *,ime he was identi fi• *lt;i a the layer of Aimer Feck. Hewa - returned to Indiana Oct. 10 ami was indicted by the Marion county gran*I jury on a first degree murde.* charge.Lee again escaped from Franklin were arrested on Jan. 27. 1925. He was recapturei day, were deli and made his second escape fionr the charge of t Johnson ('■ unty jail March 15. 1925. station at Ind Following this escape, Lee was ar- Dave Braden rlt; .ted in Tennessee where he was I The Marine o convicted of participation in a series 1 over to the I of filling station holdups. He escaped on instruction at th( head of a gang of prisoners D. C., to pros from the Tennessee cv»te prison at Federal clt; urt Na hvillo, April 9, 1926. In that get- were atraignc awny In* fl urished a wooden pistol Commissioner with a determination that cowed jail pending tl guards and permitted flight without1 jury which w the fireing of a sht* . wry. Besides1/ c was recaptured at Buffalo, N. desertion the Y., last April. Tennessee authorities ecuted for autwaived their claim upon the prisoner -and hi was returned to Indiana to he tiied for the 1’eck murder, this Mmc j being h« Id under clone watch in Vie Marion c«»unty Jail until a sh rt time before going to trial. His trial held la. t October at Franklin resulted in a bung jury.I.- e is a small man, 27 years old,nt!-I wiu! i be taken for almost any- I thing else than a notorious jail break r. He i said to be an artist of con- j -iderable ability and has designed nevSCH0C0PEPCITY, COI N’D’PAUW ISUM E**Monday im reopening of ;d commercial advertisements. In castle and Pu il he ilevntid his time to drawing the annual Uh rt'K.ns dealing especially with jail 1 work at DePi making fun of his jaiUrx. 1 resumed Mon
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