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Newspaper
Oklahoma Ada News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
17
Five inmates escaped from a federal jail in Chickasha. Two returned, but Booth Sargent and Hurley remain at large. They were awaiting grand jury action on bunco charges involving a country youth, while Jailer Simpson was bound and gagged during the daring breakout.
News reports a prison mutiny at the Oregon Penitentiary in Satem Oregon with three guards killed. Two inmates Harry Tracey and David Merrell escaped armed after exchanging shots with guards. others aided by fellow prisoners and local citizens. A posse pursues the fugitives as a clash is anticipated.
Merrick, warned by Princess Orgavitech, faces rivals led by Count Leon Villebois and Stromboloff the Don Cossack. Amid a hotel fire in Paris, he hoists a fainting woman to safety, evacuating others as fire crews battle the blaze and a dangerous plot unfolds around him.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a scene with mentions of Mee Youngwed, carpets, sheds, and a person named Youngwed. The passage is garbled and difficult to parse, but hints at a domestic setting and a conversation about someone coming home.
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