CONDEMNED KILLERS BREAK OUT OF GAOL
Received Thursday, 7.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, April 3. | Two killers broke out of "death row" in the District of Columbia gaol, aiter seizing the guns and uniforms of j two policemen and locking the oxficers | in their cells. The killers, after making a rope of) twisted sheets, teiephoned the captain j of the guard and reported "all weil." I Then they climbed down from the! three-storey roof, and fled in a stoien | car. The fugitives are Joseph Medley, ! condemned for killing a woman -affter a poker gaJB^.in-.^Jj^r^ikli^ wfc&L'iie Nfrafcs-j already a fugitivfe from another gaol, I and Earl McFarland, an ex-serviceman who raped and killed a young woman. j Police headquarters later annovttced j that Medley was recaptured in northwest Washington. A sociable card game between the condemned killers and. two policemen led to ihe niurdarers' sensational escape. An official gaol statement says that one of. the card-playing j policemen complained of illness and went into Medley 's cell to lie on the bunk. One of the prisoners closed the cell door and then both the condemned men overpowered the other policeman and locked him in the cell. The prisoners then took the policemen' s clothes and keys.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1946, Page 5
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