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PRISONER GETSOUT OF PRISONFOR HITH TIMEPHI spool time,t is d , Mo in cal . j ment and nancment In Gove recoi approf tRalph Lee, Arrested at Tombstone for Robbery,wheri Flees Indiana Prison. j shortherelKKANKL1N, Ind., Jan. 1 (/P)—Ralph Lee who has been playing hide and seek with the law 15 of his 28 years,hasdeve 1 of- tl prlat andi still is free after his tenth escape j Me ! from confinement here New Year's. H,tUHI I A/ltlbeenthemeat-Houlthis prop theprottW once; eve.! Lee with two fellow prisoners beat ! ;i deputy sheriff into unconsciousness to attain liberty from the Jacksonj county jail. He was being held here to answer to a charge of murder j Kent during a grocery holdup at Indiana- neer polls in July, 15)21. ' n’MPosses of officers and citizens are | searching Johnson county for tho|lt;luJ' j criminal while authorities in otherj cl 1 I parts of Indiana and in adjoining i states are on the lookout.| Lee has escaped from state prisons,I state reformatories and state farms i as well as city and county jails in Indiana, Arizona, Washington and i Tennessee. l*hc bandits’ periods Of ; freedom have been short lived and in most instances he has beep re* i captured without a demonstration of | force. Lee first played tag with law and order in 15)11 in his homo town of Edinburg, Ind., where he» opiI was convicted of burglary. He was turlt; j sent to the boys school at Plainfield, j ,;n(^1 He escaped after nine months.( In 11)14 when lfc was 16, Lee t stole* a buggy at Columbus, Ind., byI uivnI out-scuffling a city jailor he escaped. j Two years later he was apprehended j jale ! for forgery at Colville, Wash., con- ^y vieted and sentenced to the state Ii T * 1 i - j filllllI reformatory at Monroe. After 11) lren ! days he scaled the wall to freedom. I ^ ! He was arrested at Tombstone, j j Ariz., in 11)17 for robbery and was j tlu,| sentenced to the state prison for five| turo . to twenty years* Three years was I \ sufficient time for him to effect his j escape.clt; Neva flow on ' sliou erat.Tl' A r i z bind pure the si onsessi ex piDiislaturesSix years later Lee was caught on j i a chicken stealing charge at Martins- vJI*ville, Ind. A year’s sentence to the) state farm terminated in 60 .days; when he walked out. ;♦ |Y.%Ql IS LOSE no MENIA B ATTLE WITH I bUKHAl.NTl'CSON, Jan. 1 lt;/P).— A special to \\tin* A r'zona. Dm Iv Star tonight says !that a captain of the 55th Sonoraregiment and 17 men of the federal forces were killed ip an engagement 1 witht Yaqui Indians at Pota.ni, Sonora. December l’7. The Yaquis losif red dres waspres havlt;in• • • •60 men and an unknown number ot .
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Douglas Daily Dispatch
Douglas, Arizona, US
Sun, Jan 02, 1927
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