Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — SIX HUNDRED FEET OF PRISON WALL IS DOWN [ARTICLE]

SIX HUNDRED FEET OF PRISON WALL IS DOWN

National Guards Ready If Convicts Attempt a Break, Indianapolis, April 30. Governor Marshall was notified early today by Warden Reid of the Northern Indiana prison at Michigan City z that six hundred feet of the prison wall had been blown down by the storm. . The governor in reply to an appeal for militia, sent General Oran Perry of the Indiana National Guard to Michigan City with orders to call out a company of militia at South Bend if the soldiers were needed. Warden Reid's message, owing to bad wires, was the last information obtainable from Michigan City.