GAOL ESCAPEE CAUGHT
American Prison Break SYEACUSE ,~Nov. 18. The police captured Percy .Geary Mding in a shack and suffering from an injufed leg, cold and hiinger. Ho submitted without resistance. Three members of a gang who liidnapped John O'Connell, junr., of Albany, New York, in 1933, escaped from the penitentiary at Syracuse, New York. Tho, men used a pistol, apparently. smuggled in, , to force .the guard (o unlock their eell and escort them to the yard. There they took the keys from a second guard, wno was then bound and gagged and thrown in'to the rear seat of his own motor-car, in whieh he had just arrived at work. The pvisoners — J ohn' Oley, 'Percy Geary" and Harold Crowley — drove from the prison three miles to the centre of the city, where they trqnsferred to another car and. drove oft. Before escaping the three men bound and gagged three other guards and the inatron. It was discovered that tho bars of Geary 's cell had been previously sawn through and stuek together with gum. '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 49, 20 November 1937, Page 3
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