Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — Murderer Escapes From Prison. [ARTICLE]

Murderer Escapes From Prison.

Michigan City, July 11.—George Marlow, forty-one years old, serving a life sentence for the murder of William Walter Johnson in Indianapolis October 16, 1916, escaped from the state prison farm here. He feigned Illness when a fire broke out in a nearby woods and other prisoners went to extinguish It. While they were away he escaped. He wore black overalls over the regulation prison suit of gray. He had been in prison since April 17, 1917.