Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Nine Prisoners Saw Bars And Escape From Kankakee. [ARTICLE]

Nine Prisoners Saw Bars And Escape From Kankakee.

Nine prisoners Sawed the bars and escaped from the Jail at Kankakee, 111., Tuesday night and made their escape. The delivery is supposed to have been led by Charles' Carney, suspected of being the leader in the diamond robbery at the home of Nellie Clark recently. The others wbo escaped were W. A. Norton, Geo. L. Hfickard, John Richards, Lawrence Siroin, John Kelley, Geo. Loughran, Eugene Ware and Charles Robertson, all under arrest on charges of robbery Four other prisoners refused to escape with the gang and were threatened With death if they exposed the plot during the several days when the leaders arranging it.