Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — MARION COUNTY JAIL PRISONERS ESCAPE IN NIGHT [ARTICLE]

MARION COUNTY JAIL PRISONERS ESCAPE IN NIGHT

Indianapolis, Ind., July s.—Eight of the 24 prisoners, who escaped from the Marion county jail here early today after attacking a night watchman and robbing him of his keys and revolver had been captured this afternoon. Police in surrounding towns are on the look-out for the fugitives. Indianapolis, July s.—Four of the 24 prisoners who escaped from the Marion county jail early this morning have been recaptured and every available police on the force is assisting the forces of Sheriff Robert Miller in the search for the remainder of the fugitives. The prisoners esca>ped about 1 o'clock this morning after knocking unconscious the night jailer with an iron bar sawed from a cell, unlocked several doors with his keys and walking out the main entrance of the building which is just across the street from police headquarters. The wholesale jail delivery was not discovered until nearly an hour later, and then only by the capture of two of the fugitives by policemen who * investigated a reported hold-up near the Erie Railroad yards. The two men confessed they had escaped from the jail. A call was sent into the sheriff’s office, and an investigation of the jail showed the place almost deserted. The night jailer was found insensible and bound and gagged in the corridor. A roll call of prisoners showed that 24 had escaped, nine federal and fifteen state inmates.