Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1904 — Prison Convicts Escape. [ARTICLE]

Prison Convicts Escape.

Two ounviote cso aped from iliohigan C.ty Prison, last Saturday. They were Wm Lyons snd Everett Van Anker, both in for burglary. They were working ae electricians and scaled tbe wall by a ladder made of short pieces of gas pipe, and had a rope to lower themselves down the outside wall. Lyons is an old timer, but Van Auken was serving his first erm. They were engaged at putting np lights in one of the factorise and were under the oare of an officer Tbe gnard stepped out of the shop and the two men made heir daring break for liberty. The escape was not disoovered until they bad been gone for Wf an hear.