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T\TTv«-N*wis Photo — ioan ^chBot«vSheriff Mike Gardner (left) and Deputy check basement of home at 1111 Windsor St, for escaped prisoner while Kingsport Ptl, George Cox and police dog Whitcy stand by.iPrisoner Escapes, Holds 8 HostageBy BILL JONES and LEN PENIX Tiraes-News Slaff WritersA Sullivan County Jail inmate, who had been brought to Holston Valley Community Hospital for treatment, escaped from deputies Monday evening and held eight people later that night hostage.”They're seared to death,” Deputy Harold Alterman said last night in front of the house at 221 Millpond where the escapee fled from less than an hour earlier.According to Alterman, Allen Blye, 23, 316 Dunbar St., Kingsport, came to the house around 8 p.m. and stayed until 10 p.m.He was unarmed and did not hold the elderly couple and their six youngsters eaplive per sey. Instead, Alterman said, Blye came to the home asking for a glass of water. He said he and his ex-wife had a fight and that a man was following him.In all he asked for three glasses of water,Blye said, and allowed the children to play outside and watch TV. He kepi reaching under his shir I as if he had a gun. Alter-man said.Blye, the deputy said, kept insisting hewould not leave until dark because lie was afraid.One of the hostages,” police said, had a scrimis heart condition and did not wantto be identified to the press.Blye escaped from Deputy Nick Cody inside the hospital, and ran out the hospital’s front entrance with Cudy in hot pursuit, according lowlinesses.Blye, who wafbeing held in the Sullivan County Jail on a charge of escaping from the Kingsport City Jail and is wanted by authorities in Scott County, Va. and by U.S. Treasury Department officers, bnko free about fi:30 p.m.Sullivan County Purchasing Agent Tommy Hulse, who was viisiting a relative at the hospital, said Blye came dashing through the hospital trailed by Cody, who was yelling for the prisoner to halt.I’ll shoot Allen, I’ll shoot.” Cody yelled, according to Hulse. The officer apparently held his fire for fear of hitting innocent bystanders.Once outside, Blye apparently ran to the rear of the hospital by the new parking garage, crossed Cassell Drive and Reedy Creek, and headed in the direction of the Kingsport Boys’ Club when last seen.Deputies and Kingsport police officers concentrated the search for Blye in the Gibson Mill Road-Cassell Drive-Hols ton Drive area, shortly after the escape, but had been unable to locate the escapee by 8More On Page 8A, Col. 1
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Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Tue, Jul 19, 1977
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