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31 -CENT SLICE IN TAX FIGURE RECOMMENDED

Chamber Official Suggests $158,067 Cut in City Outlay. REPORTERS’ BAN LIFTED Proposal to Slash Old Age Pension Fund Gains Majority. Budget reductions, including a plan of refunding bonded indebtedness. which would reduce the Center township total rate to $2 84. instead of 53.15, were advocated to the county tax reduction board by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today. Leaders in the fight waged by the Indianapolis R°al Estate Board refused an invitation to present their views to the board in the final public hearing on 1934 budgets. At the close of the morning session. the board voted to permit newspaper men to attend all hearings for the remainder of the sessions until midnight Saturday. Suggest Rate Cuts Under the Chamber proposals, described to the board by Charles Coy. the city rate would be reduced 3.4 cents from $131; the county rate, 10.1 cents from 58 cents, and the school city, 16.8 cents from 99 cents. The report seconded the majority opinion of the board that the old age pension fund should be slashed in half from the $200,000 requested. The city budget would be slashed $158,067.44. under the plan presented by Coy. and $4i2.285 would be cut from the school budget. In the school budget, the major saving would be accomplished through inclusion of $324 000 fund from the state, due in July.

Teachers Would Wait Coy argued that the money could be anticipated, and that teachers would be willing to wait for their salaries until the state aid was received. J. Harry Miles, president of the real estate board, and Lawrence Holmes, executive secretary, said they were prepared to give the board opinions of attorneys regarding interpretations of the $1.50 law. “After coming over here and listening to Coy's reception, we decided not to attempt to tell the board anything,” Holmes said. "They know what we want, and it would be useless to discuss the matt3r any further.” “Our attorneys have advised us that the tax adjustment board has no power to declare an emergency, and we hold that no emergency exists," Holmes asserted. Court Ruling Cited "The board sought the advice of city, school and county attorneys the other day. and today we were to give them the other side of the legal points involved, for their consideration in writing their rate order.” One of the principal cases to have been decided by the realtors' attorneys is the Indiana supreme court decision last summer on the Kokomo courthouse case. The decision, as explained by attorneys, removes the complete jurisdiction in tax cases from governing officials and opens the way to judicial interpretations on the officials’ acts. Legal Action Forecast The local real estate board already has warned the tax adjustment board that, if the tax levy is left above $1.50 and an appeal to the state tax board fails, the courts will be petitioned to determine whether an emergency existed. Late Tuesday aftecnoon. discussion of the old age pension closed that apparently a 5-to-2 majority had been gained to a proposal to slash the $200,000 appropriated bv the county council to $90,000. Members in favor of the slash pointed out that the sum would pay a SIBO annual pension to 500 persons. which was held to be the maximum number of pensioners who would be investigated during the first year of operation.

RENAME CITY DOCTOR AT MEDICAL SESSION A. F. Weyerbaoher to Continue as Association Treasurer. Dr A. F Weyerbaoher. Indianapolis. was today re-elected treasurer of the Indiana State Medical Association and Indianapolis was chosen as the 1934 convention city as the organization ended this year's convention at French Lick. Dr. Walter Leach. New Albany, j was elected president. Times Index Page. Book-A-Day 4 Bridge 16 Broun Column 6 City Briefs 13 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 5 Dance Lesson No. 3 16 Dietz on Science 16 Editorial 6 Financial 13 Fishing • • 16 Hickman Theater Reviews 5 Radio 10 School News 11 Serial Story 15 Sports 12 Talburt Cartoon 6 Vital Statistics 13 Wall Street —A series 4 Womans Pages 8-9 j

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 119

$14,000,000 Is Added to Pay Rolls in 10 Cities of State, Says NRA Chief Re-Employment of 16,959 Persons Reported by Francis Wells: More Than Score of Cities Have Not Yet Reported, He Announces. An annual pay roll increase of $14,000,000 for ten Indiana cities and a re-emDloyment increase of 16.959 persons since the start of NRA was announced today by Francis Wells, Indiana representative of the United States department of commerce.

$73,250 KIDNAP MONEY FOUND Part of Urschel Haul Is Discovered in Texas Cotton Patch. By t nited Press COLEMAN. Tex.. Sept. 27. —Department of justice agents today questioned a brother of Mrs. R. G. Shannon, defendant in the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping case, after $73,250 was recovered and identified as part of the $200,000 ransom for the wealthy Oklahoma City oil man. The money was recovered from a cache in a cotton patch. Federal agents arrested the man, Cass Coleman. 45. It was indicated he would be charged with harboring George (Machine Gun) Kelly and his wife Katherine, both of whom were arrested Tuesday at Memphis, Tenn. , Hearing Is Delayed By l nitrti Press MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Sept. 27. George 'Machine Gun) Kelly's hearing before a United States commissioner was indefinitely delayed here today on orders of John M. Keith, special agent of the department of justice. CHILD CUSTODY FIGHT SHIFTED TO COURT Probate Judge Will Rule in Rattle of Foster Parents, Mother. Fight for the possession of 9-year-old Vinnie Pettigrew', w'hich has been w'aged for weeks between her mother and her foster parents, will be transferred to probate court. Following a decision by county commissioners, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Rogers, w'ho w'ere given custody of the child by juvenile court last year, will begin formal adoption proceedings, it was indicated. The child's mother. Mrs. Roy Losch, wife of a local policeman, seeks to regain custody of the girl, born in a previous marriage. Vinnie was taken from the orphans' home by the Rogers, after juvenile court had made her a ward after Mrs. Losch is alleged to have deserted her. FORD PLANT CLOSED Action Follows Strike at Chester. Pa., in Wage Protest. /?!/ I nitrti Prcst r CHESTER, Pa.. Sept. 27.—Due to a strike, the Ford Motor Company assembly plant was ordered closed down today oy company officials. The strike was called, workers’ representatives said, because the company announced a thirty-two-hour week with no increase in the minimum hourly rate of 50 cents.

‘Little Fellow ’ Carrying Utility Burden, Is Charge Commission Chairman Presses Point in Public Service Company Rate Hearing Here. Effort to show that residential and commercial electric patrons are made to bear the burden of low cost power rates for large industrial users was made today as hearings in the rate reduction case against the Public Service Company of Indiana were resumed before the public service commission. Chairman Perry McCart of the commission brought out the point in cross-examination of L. B Schiesz. comptroller for the company.

Schiesz explained the higher service cost charges on the commercial and residential consumer on the grounds that in providing power they had to meet competition from Diesel plants and the like. In the commercial and residential fields, the utility enjoys a monopoly, it was pointed out. He also said that stockholder dividends might be endangered by overexpansion of plants.

Flood Control Is Dire Necessity in Indiana

Dup t the interest in flood control The Times has asked William F. Collins, conservation expert and national director of the liaak Walton League, to interpret the situation in his own words in four stories. This is the second of the series. BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS Times Special Writer ITAKE it that not every one is familiar with the fundamental reasons why we yearly are iaced with bigger and better floods. In pioneer days when Knox county was the state of Indiana, and Knox county was a dense forest from the Ohio river to Lake Superior. we gather from old documents that floods were not unknown. George Rogers Clark, at a later date, had to swim his men across the flooded Embarrass river and came into camp before Vincennes on that bleak December day with a and flooded Wabash W-

The Indianapolis Times Fair and cooler tonight with lowest temperature about 47; Thursday fair, warmer by night.

The cities reported today w’ere Anderson, ‘ Bedford. Evansville, Frankfort, Hammond, Marion, Mishawaka, Newcastle, Peru and Shelbyville. More than a score of Indiana cities of more than 10,000 population have not reported on the success of NRA in their communities, according to Wells. Among these cities are East Chicago. Elkhart, Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Muncie, Richmond and Terre Haute. Appointments of an Indianapolis woman to represent consumers and another member to represent labor on the local complaints board to hear alleged violations of NRA have not been made, although the board considered cases at its regular meeting Tuesday at the Chamber of Commerce.

By l nited Per*s WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. The United States government obtained patent No. 97,793 '2 on the blue eagle, official symbol of the NRA on Tuesday. Application for the patent was filed Sept. 21 by Charles Toucey Coiner of Mechanicsville, Pa., its designer, who immediately signed his title to "the government of the United States, as represented by the national recovery administration.” The patent office set anew record in rushing through the patent, it being granted within six days, including Sunday. The patent runs fourteen years. It was one of the first patents in history with a fractional number. MERCURY MAY DROP TO 47, IS FORECAST Cool Wave Scheduled to Follow Storm. Cooler weather greeted Indianapolis today following a windstorm accompanied by heavy rains, which Thursday blew down tree limbs and wires on the north side. Actual property damage caused by the storm was slight, being confined largely to damaged awnings, signs and roofs on sheds. The heavy rain brought total precipitation for the year to 6.49 inches above normal. Mr. Armington said. The unsettled condition is passing. he added, with the rains probably ended, and cooler weather expected tonight, with the lowest about 47 degrees. Temperatures are expected to rise slowly Thursday. Light frost in exposed places is possible north of Indianapolis tonight but is not expected in immediate vicinity of the city, he said. Bloodhounds Trap Robber Suspect BLUFFTON, Ind., Sept. 27. Bloodhounds were used to capture Coulson Bohr, 26, Craigville, suspected of robbing the Craigville postoffice. Police said he confessed.

The questioning was more or less hypothetical and came as an interlude in the comptroller's testimony for the company. In the testimony, he sought to prove that rate reductions already have cut company revenues $1,244,459 a year since January, 1932, and further reductions would mean property confiscation.

Fast Bird Blue Eagle Patent Issued in Record Time.

tween himself and the British fort. Whenever there is normal rainfall, there are floods. The normal flow of water through any river on the face of the earth will not keep a channel open large enough to accommodate the water of flood periods. It has been estimated that the Mississippi river should maintain for itself a water prism 219 times larger than the one existing to take care of such a flood as swooped through it in 1913. Floods become devastating only when there is a population to act upon. So long as this population insists on invading the domain of the flood waters, just so long will we witness the annual parade of houses floating out to sea and worse. The problem then is one of control. and this •an be divided into two aspects, a program of control

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933

SABOTAGE BY DISGRUNTLED GUARDSHINTED Charge Prison Break Is Due to ‘Spoils System’ Hotly Denied. PROBE TO BE LAUNCHED j Wayne Coy Asserts Sullen Veterans May Have Aided Convicts. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer Formal investigation of the Indiana state prison break will begin at the prison Thursday by the board of trustees, it was announced today by Wayne Coy, McNutt secretary in | charge of penal affairs. Coy will attend the trustees meeting and represent Governor Paul V. : McNutt. The Governor said he would be j unable to go Thursday and might 1 issue a formal statement on the af- | fair later. He does not believe the new warden to blame, he declared. Hue and cry has been raised that i changes in personnel at the prison ! under the so-called "spoils system'' was a contributing cause of the escape. This was being combated by a counter-theory advanced by the administration. The statehouse view' is that it might have been brought about by sabotage by the “old guard" group that still remain at the institution. Mr. Coy advanced this viewpoint. He indicated that it will e one line of questioning to be followed in an administration investigation of the prison delivery. Half of Guards Fired Governor McNutt ousted former Warden Walter Daly, who had spent more than twenty-five years in prison w r ork, by appointing Louis E. Kunkel, Michigan City attorney, to the wardenship. Under the direction of Pleas Greenlee, patronage secretary of the McNutt regime, half or more of the guards and other prison employes then were replaced by "deserving Democrats.” Warden Kunkel has experienced considerable difficulty since taking the post. Not long ago a prisoner hid in an automobile and got through the gates with another who was being paroled. Prisoners w'orking on the farms walk away almost weekly, it is reported. Revolvers Tossed Over Wall, Last week, revolvers were tossed into the prison yard over the high wall. Mr. Kunkel then asked for better flood lighting. He had the Culver bank robbers put into solitary confinement on the grounds that they were the ones who were to get the revolvers. Now the theory is that the men who escaped Tuesday were the plotters. "Warden Kunkel has noticed that there is something wrong at the institution,” Mr. Coy explained. "For one thing, the new guards appear so much more co-operative than the old ones, some of whom have been extremely surly and seem to resent j taking orders from him. "Such a break as occured Tuesday would be almost impossible without some co-operation from guards or someone else on the prison staff,” Mr. Coy contended. “It might have been an old guard, | o’- even anew one who would sell out. Every effort will be made to learn the truth.” ROOSEVELT TO STUDY WORLD MONEY STATE Credit Program Also Will Get Attention During Stay at Park. By I nited Press NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—President Roosevelt today prepared to retire to the seclusion of his Hyde Park home to* review the international monetary situation and direc* opera- ! tion of his credit expansion pro-, gram. Some of his close advisers believed | the chief executive also would tackle the war debts problem in preparations for conferences scheduled on his return to Washington. Oct. 5. They thought the debt question was discussed Tuesday night when Mr. Roosevelt conferred with Jesse Isidor Strauss, ambassador to France, at his home here. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 62 10 a. m 62 7 a. m 61 11 a. m 63 Ba. m 63 12 (noon).. 64 9 a. m 63 1 p. m 66

and a program of prevention. Up to the present moment we only have witnessed the program of prevention used in this state. The program of control here has not been one of control at all, but one of aggravation. As time passed, the pioneer family moved out of the ridges and invaded the richer domain of the valley. His contact with the outer world developed the first step toward bringing about our destructive floods of the present century. To effect an easier path for his boat, over the network of waterways with which Indiana was blessed, he and his neighbor and his legislature spent thousands of dollars to keep the streams free from obstructions. This act was the beginning of the program of aggravation. As late as 1912, I saw the effect of just such an act in the St. Francis Valley in northeqfaAJkansas.

POSSES SEARCH INDIANA WOODS FOR 10 ESCAPED CONVICTS; FEAR HOSTAGE SHERIFF MAY BE SLAIN

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Apprehension was felt at Warsaw today following the escape of John Burns and nine other convicts from the Indiana state prison. Burns was serving a life term for murder, and had threatened the life of John Anglin, Warsaw insurance agent, who was a member of the convicting jury. James M. Clark, Clinton. Ind., who has a record of bank banditry, and who was serving a murder term for slaying a deputy sheriff, also is among the escaped convicts, some of whom are believed surrounded in a woods near Chesterton.

Indiana Wins Fight for Right to Try Dillinger Suspected Leader of Bank Bandit Gang to be Extradited to City; Ohio Governor Signs Papers. The state of Indiana today won its fight for the right to try John Dillinger, under indictment for complicity in the holdup of the Massachusetts Avenue State bank here, when Governor George White of Ohio signed papers for Dillinger s extradition from Dayton, O.

Prosecutor Herbert Wilson, "gratified” at obtaining Dillinger’s custody, said he would ask Indianapolis police to leave immediately for Dayton to 'return Dillinger here for a speedy trial. Little time was lost by the prosecutor in following through his program to have Dillinger tried here for the Massachusetts avenue bank robbery. The alleged leader of the bandit trio-that obtained $24,864 in the local holdup Sept. 6, was indicted Monday by the Marion county grand jury. Governor Paul V. McNutt signed

Judicial Jitters Judge Blanches, Shrinks as Man on Trial Draws Weapon; There’s a Story to It.

‘"y-OU sent me to jail, judge, and now I'm going to shoot you." NearJL ly every judge who ever sat on a bench, at one time or another, has conjectured visions of such a situation. Municipal Judge Dewey Myers didn’t hear any such threats, but he did receive all the nerve-wracking effects today.

Charles M. Halstead. 78, of 1102 South Illinois street, was brought before the court, charged with throwong stones at the two small children of James B. Roberts, 1016 South Illinois street, and then drawing a gun and forcing Roberts away, after Roberts went to Halstead's home to remonstrate. “Judge, it’s all a lie,” Halstead said loudly, as he reached for his hip pocket. “Here's what I used,” he added, as he drew a large weapon and waved it carelessly in the direction of Myers. The judge blanched and shrank back before he noticed that the “revolver” was made of glass, and had contained candy. Recovering his equanimiay. and resuming his judicial poise, Myers withheld judgment, promising Halstead a nice, long jail term if he ever appeared in that court again. Brewery Bandits Get $36,000 By United Pret* • CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Three gunmen, armed with revolvers and shotguns, raided the offices of the Garden City Brewing Company today and escaped with cash and bonds valued at $36,000. Only S9OO of the loot was in cash.

In that river was a drift of logs miles long. Behind this drift was the “spread” of the St. Francis river. I shall not elaborate here on the wonderful bass fishing and the astounding duck hunting that I experienced in the •spread.” Below the drift a normal river wound through the cypress swamps to its final outlet near Helena. I can not recall there was any such thing as a devastating flood below the drift as long as I knew it. Then some brilliant county engineer and an accommodating lawyer drew' up the modus operandi to clean out the drift. This was accomplished in 1918. There was nothing now to stop the flood water of the St. Francis. They dashed through the old drift area in hours where it used to take weeks. The people down the river went (Toni to Page Tea)

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extradition papers Tuesday and Governor White's consent followed today. Dayton authorities had refused to surrender Dillinger because he is wanted in several Ohio robberies. Their refusal brought from State Police Captain Matt Leach the charge that the Indiana state prison break Tuesday might have been balked, if Indiana authorities could have obtained possession of letters found on Dillinger when he was captured at Dayton.

McNutt Sounds Plea for Collection Club Support Governor Dines Congressmen in Attempt to Align Aid; G. 0. P. Slush Fund Exists, Charge. Governor Paul V. McNutt sought indorsement of the Hoosier Democratic Club monthly collection from Indiana congressmen who were his guests at luncheon today at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. He charged that the Republican state committee is attempting to raise a SIOO,OOO campaign fund, now, to defeat all Democrats.

The chief executive stated that the club collections will continue, and made no mention of the vote to be taken by the state committee regarding continuance. This was taken to indicate that he is sure of a majority vote as against the opposition of R. Earl Peters, state chairman, who was asked by the Governor to call the meeting. Statehouse predictions today were that the administration has seventeen of the twenty-four committee votes. Pleas Greenlee. McNutt secretary and foe of Chairman Peters, predicted thirteen certain votes Tuesday. One concession was made in Governor McNutt s speecn to the congressmen. He announced that the 2 per cent assessments on state employes’ salaries would be scaled down where it appeared excessive, and not more than 1 per cent would be collected in such cases. This was one of the suggestions made in a long letter from Mr. Peters to the Governor which brought about the state committee call. Mr. Peters was not invited to the congressional meeting. AH but Con- | gressman Finley Gray accepted invitations to the luncheon. Mr. Gray was scheduled for an address at Muncie and could not attend. Governor McNutt called attention ! to letters sent out by Burrell Wright. ; state treausrer for the Republican I party, asking SIOO donations from 1 "wealthy industrialists" so that a SIOO,OOO slush fund can be raised" Purpose is to defeat the Democratic program of tax reforms," Governor McNuttteharged.

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Hunt for Criminals Centers in Two Areas, Swampland Near Chesterton and in Chicago Vicinity; Forces Massed. ALL HIGHWAYS UNDER GUARD Desperate Inmates Stage Wholesale Break at State Prison, Shooting Down One Guard and Slugging Two Others. By Untied Pica* MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., Sept. 27.—Hundreds of vigilant possemen. armed with shotguns and squirrel rifles, tramped through isolated Indiana woods today hunting ten desperate convicts who escaped prison Tuesday and who may have killed a hostage sheriff. No trace of Sheriff Charles Neel has been found since he was kidnaped in a daring break from Indiana state prison.

LOAN ASSURES TEACHERS PAY Five City Banks Will Aid School Commissioners With $500,000. Authorizing a $500,000 loan from five Indianapolis banks by the board of school commissioners made payment of Indianapolis school teachers’ salaries a certainty, it was learned today. The loan will tide the board over until the first instalment of taxes is received. Arrangements for the loan have been made with the Union Trust Company, the Fletcher Trust Company, Indiana Trust Company, Indiana National Bank and Merchants National Bank. Salaries of school principals have been fixed in ratio to enrollment in buildings, according to Paul C. Stetson, superintendent. TAMPICO MENACED BY HUNGER, DISEASE Relief Work Is Started at Stricken City. By United Press TAMPICO, Mexico, Sept. 27. Hunger and disease threatened stricken Tampico today as relief work was organized and search continued for bodies of hurricane victims. Water and light services were suspended. Food and medical supplies for the hundreds of ill and injured, were needed urgently. Portions of the residential section still were under six to ten feet of water.

SOL BODNER ENTERS PLEA OF NOT GUILTY Attorney Denies Charge in Theft Indictment. Sol C. Bodner, prominent criminal practice attorney, today pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging receiving stolen goods, when he was arraigned in criminal court before Judge Frank P Baker. Bodner. indicted in connection with his defense of the Delphi hank bandit gang, entered his plea after Judge Baker overruled a motion to quash the indictment. Baker also overruled a similar motion in the case of Louis Rosenberg, attorney, indicted for alleged subornation of perjury in the James P. Scanlan auto finance embezzlement case. Rosenberg previously had pleaded not guilty. U. S. STEEL ASSAILED Pennsylvania Governor Blames Company for Labor Dispute Violence. By L nited Pmg CHICAGO. Sept. 27.—Governor Pincnot of Pennsylvania sharply rebuked the United States Steel Corporation and its affiliates today in response to an appeal for aid in the latest outbreak of violence in the state's coal and steel district. Pinchot blamed the steel concern for its present labor difficulties in a telegram to Lamont Hughes, president of the Carnegie Steel Company, asking aid against a march of Fayette county coal miners upon the concern's works at CliSrton.

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The search, which was joined by slate police and peace officers and vigilantes of almost all northern Indiana cities, was spurred by a warning issued by Captain Matt Leach of the state police. “We fear Sheriff Neel has been slain.” Captain Leach said. “The convicts were through with him after they got away in his car and abandoned it. They probably shot him shortly after commandeering the second automobile.” Adding to the belief the sheriff had been done away with was the fact that five men first were seen riding in the automobile and later only four occupants were sighted. The hunt for the criminals was concentrated in two areas—a swampy, deserted tract of land near Chesterton, Ind., and the Chicago vicinity. Reserves May Be Called A large force of men was gathered today to beat through the swamp land which would provide excellent cover for the escaped convicts. Additional forces of naval reserve members were expected to be called at the request of prison authorities to aid in the roundup. Neel was captured when some of the convicts commandeered his automobile after breaking from the prison. Antiquated construction of the prison was blamed for the break today by Deputy Warden C. H. Claudy. He pointed out all the gates v.:re of open bar construction which enabled the convicts to get a drop on guards before the guards were aware of what happened. It also was explained that while turnkeys at the gates were armed, none of the inside warders carried weapons. All Highways Watched

Intimation that an attempt at a break was to be made had reached \ the prison authorities, they said, ! but this information indicated the attempt would not be made until 1 a f ter Oct. 1. Chicago police were watching j closely for possible appearance of the criminals in Chicago underworld haunts. Nearly all the men were professional bank robbers and killers of the most ruthless type. At least several were believed likely to make their way at once to Chicago. All automobiles on highways leading to the city were scrutinized carefully. The escape, one of the most daring in Indiana history, left an aged guard critically wounded and two 1 others slugged. Finley Carson, 72, { a clerk, was shot twice by the con- ! victs. His recovery is doubtful. The escape, obviously wellplanned, started shortly after noon. An armed convict stepped up to G. H. Stevens, superintendent of the shirt factory, and on a ruse led I him to the basement. He immedi- | ately was overpowered. Guard Is Badly Beaten He and Albert Evans, assistant w'arden, were forced to w'alk befotj the convicts to the administration building. The procession appeared ,to be a routine affair to other guards. The prisoners kept their guns hidden beneath their blue ! denim shirts. Walking in step, the group api proached the first steel gate. There guard Frank Swanson w'as forced to join Evans and Stevens. At the second gate, guard Guy Burklow also joined the procession. Inside the second gate, however, i the prisoners drew their revolvers. They slugged guard Fred Wellnitz, at the last gate. Lawrence Mutch, w-ho held the keys to an arsenal of guns and rifles, refused to open it. He was beaten into unconsciousness. Carson was shot when he was slow in obeying an order for eight clerks to step into a vault. Missing Convicts. !By United l J ri nn MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 27. —The prisoners who escaped from the Indiana state prison here Tuesday were: James Clark, life, murder. Joseph Jenkins, life, murder. Walter Dietrich, life, bank robbery. John Bums, life, murder. Joe Fox. life, bank robbery. Edward Shouse, twenty-five years, robbery. Russell Clark, twenty years, tobbery. John Hamilton, twenty-five year*, robbery. Charles Mackley, ten to twenty years, robbery. Harry Pierpont. ten to twenty years, robbery.