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Escaped FelonCaptured AfterEighteen Years»j SAN QUENTIN—Eighteen years of d I fancied security from detection have j j ended for Frank’Melville, alios Wil-,• Ham Collins, who escaped from San.l| Quentin Prison in 11)1*0 and is nowtc held in New York City awaiting: ac- Jletion by the California authorities. ky| A fight which caused his finger b ss I prints to be taken a year ago was j ~T\ responsible for undoing of the man ^ I who htul married and become the r()flfather of two daughters. The finger. \ ty! prints w;re sent hv the New York* Iiea_ police to Washington, where, a few . idays ago, they were matched u)) with; those sent out when the known in San ( | Quentin as Melville escaped, through 1 1 the aid of a trusty, James Hurley, ced :, tender. He left the door of Melville s ’ j unlocked, locked it after he htid: 'idjleft and the two went through a roof t in | trap door and over the wall bv a pipe. ] ut | Hurley was captured in less than a. ;lt; ^i month and is in the Mendocino State: ien•edi Hospital for the Insane. ' ^i Melville was sentenced to twenty-.: five years for the robbery of a street; i car in Sacramento, in lull, and had:i ’; served two years when he escaped. It -j is possible, it was said yesterday that;Hhould investigation show the numb ! , \ 1 • j worthy of consideration he may »e ;of:liei paroled.i1Ii m ti ni tin nmr rt
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Woodland Daily Democrat
Woodland, California, US
Thu, Jun 23, 1932
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