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JACKSON GUARD :Ui(Cortlau^J from V*s* Ou«1 jiIn 50 packed with all theelehieirj of a movie thriller, five ] jobbers and a rapist pained access i to the prison roof and in the action; fbat : followed 3 guard was shot j dead, a prison yard football same; hurriedly called off* and all six !u felons captured. ■ wc:Coincides -With Came ]]yPresumably liming their well-;,. .engineered plot to coincide with the footbs. /. game—a part of the prison's Sabbath recreation program :—the six overpowered two guards and a prison officer in a stealthy maneuver to flee over the walls. n the time the;five had clamber- {q ed down a crude xarider of rope and 1*pipe, the alarm was sounded and itthe prison exercise loU where 3,000 ru-convicU watched the game, had \n been ordered cleared. |B.. • Three of the fleeing felons—Sani .SawayaT 26, and George Bodie, 25, .robbers, and llalcolm Stokes, rap-;tt:1st—dashed into a guard’s car. Chief jGuard Inspector Fred Boucher, 54,'o tried to halt them, and was killed jl : by aishoxgun blast.• A second shot : went wild, and Mrs. Darathy Roberts of Kalamazoo,' visitor at the prison, was^struck in the face by a pellet. She ■was only slightly hurt. •Guard Tricked Prison officials said the shotgun . was that taken from Russell Day, roof Lower - guard whom the six overpowered after gaining the roof, by tricking him inj,o believing :his-relief guard was on. hand... The three, in the car belonging to Day, sped off,’leaving their'fellow-• conspirators behind. A chase of a '• mile and a naif ended with their : surrender after Deputy Wardentai1Glenn Carpenter's revolver shot tore open a tire on the fugitive's ^machine. . 'bscrehtsi Meanwhile, guards captured Paul Lawman, 33, and John L. Sullivan,;:35,: both serving, robbery terms, near• the prison walif and Leo Thifault,24, also a robber, fell captive as he.hid-behind, a cupola on the roof.Guard Suspended ■! Warden. Harry Jackson suspended-Guard Day, pending investigation,”-.anlt;l all six of ihc convicts* lt;■were placed in “detention cells/' \ ^ Deputy Warden Carpenter, seeking! j51• to learn which one. shot Boucher, | ^ said Sawaya- had possession of:.: Day’s, shotgun when the three In .the: car were captured.lt;Slate's Attorney General Thomas Read said , he would conduit with• .Gov. Loren D. Dickinson and askfar a part in the investigation.An inquiry still is going on into ; ; the escape and recapture of four-long term convicts at the northern ; branch prison in Marquette last Sept/5, In that break the convicts! took four state officials as hostages.! .on a futile dash across northern j i : Michigan.
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Sault Ste Marie Evening News
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, US
Mon, Nov 06, 1939
Page 4
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Clipped by
Daniel W.
TX, USA 27 Mar 2016
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