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“Lifer” and Companion Flee Second Day After Warden Murphy’s Reappointment.*Two convicts, one a lifo prisoner, escaped fropi the penitentiary at Joliet yesterday—the second day after the reappointment of E. J. Murphy as warden—according to a dispatch received by the police here last night.The dispatch asks the police to search for the men, James Sammons, once sentenced to hang for the shooting of Saloonkeeper Patrick Barrett in 1003 and later given a commutation of sentence to life; and James Lynch, who lived in West Lrie street. The message did not state how the escape was effected.Search of 1.000 cells at the penitentiary will be made to-day on orders by Warden Murphy. He is convinced that a supply of revolvers, knives and razors hidden . by convicts will be bared. Prison guards will be doubled and other precautions taken to prevent a repetition of the outbreak of last week.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Mon, Jun 11, 1917
Page 17
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