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Six DangerousConvicts EscapeGeorgia PrisonBUFORD, Ga., Sept. 24. (AF)— iSix of Georgia’s most desperate i criminals broke awv from a new i ! prison for incorrigibles today j while a guard rained buckshot upon them from a wall tower.They dropped their, wheelbar-,j rows, ’ shoved* the driver from a _ truck loading rock at the prison jquarw and sped away.! “We know that some of them !were hi:.’' said Warden Ed Cle-! merits. We found the truck ab-landoned about a mile and a hall iup the road. It was covered with blood.The break came about 11:20 a.m. In less than an hour a posse of Sneariv 50 officers from three I counties and a state patrol had ! joined the chase, i Clements reported the posse hadj the fugitives surrounded in aI stretch of woods about five miles I across. He said that as far as he (knew the convicts were unarmed.
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Corpus Christi Times

Corpus Christi, Texas, US

Mon, Sep 24, 1951

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