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Tuesday, November 9, 1926
Crime & CourtsAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Evening StarWashington, D.C.

12 OF 13 ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT

Several Wounded in Fight With Guards and Hunt After Ohio Jailbreak

Context - explained by ACL:

After a break for liberty at an Ohio prison, all but one of the convicts had been returned to the prison, and an all-night search failed to find the hiding place of the lone fugitive, who is serving a term for criminal assault.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1926, page 3]

By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 9. - Only 1 of the 13 convicts who made a break for liberty at the Ohio Penitentiary yesterday remained at large today. An all night searc hfailed to reveal the hiding place of the lone fugitive. Oliver Glaspy, sentenced to a 20-year term for criminal assault.

The other 12 were returned to the prison last night, several bearing bullet wounds received in the fight with prison officials as they fled and later with police officers when they were captured. None is seriously injured. The prison officials wounded also will recover. Warden Thomas has announced an immediate investigation to determine the responsibility for the escape.

Wield Knife and Guns. Seizing their opportunity when visitors were being let in yesterday, the 13 men, several of them life-termers, pushed their way into the guard rooms. After stabbing Guard Elmer Callahan the men seized revolvers in the room, clubbed Guards Bennett, John Cochran; a trustee, E. J. Land-acre, and William Payne, the warden's secretary, and broke through to the outer gate.

They fled out the front entrance in the face of gunfire by guards and Warden Thomas. One of the convicts, Harold Neringartner, was shot in the arm.

Another, Thomas Gerak, was overtaken by a guard and captured near the prison. Eight of the men fled to Broad street, forced a woman out of her automobile and started West in the car. Another, James Johnson, Cleveland, seized a second car and followed his companions.

Meanwhile local police and nearby towns had been notified. Three Columbus motor cycle policemen started in pursuit of the men, while London, Ohio, police, started out to meet them.

As the convict car neared London the driver was confronted by the London police car parked crosswise of the road. He took to the ditch and the eight convicts jumped from the machine and ran into the cornfield at the side of the road, dividing into two groups. Police Start Hunt. A detachment of Columbus police arrived shortly and a hunt started. One of the groups resisted for some time before surrendering. Of the convicts, John Nieman, Columbus, had two fingers shot off; Charles Mithoefer, Columbus, was shot in the hand; George Lostiner, Cleveland, was wounded in the leg, and Barton Carter, Drake County, was shot in the shoulder. The others, Robert Hunt, Cleveland; Arthur Clayton, Cleveland; Frank Procter, Cincinnati, and Frank Mills, Toledo, were uninjured.

While the hunt was on Johnson, the convict, driving alone, drove up to the scene and surrendered.

The nine men were bundled into a police patrol and taken back to prison under escort of 40 guards. Late last night William Smith, the twelfth convict, gave himself up at a barbecue shop in Columbus city limits. He was tired and hungry, he told the proprietor, and made no resistance when the latter phoned for police.

George Lostiner, leader of the band, is under life sentence for murder, and has a long list of robberies and major crimes on his record. Four of the group were serving sentences for murder.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

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November 8, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, The Bismarck Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Indianapolis Times, The Alaska Daily Empire, New Britain Herald, and Brownsville Herald.

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November 9, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Imperial Valley Press, Daily Kennebec Journal, Brownsville Herald, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, and The Daily Worker.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 10 Tuesday, November 9, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
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Crime & CourtsAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Evening StarWashington, D.C.

12 OF 13 ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT

Several Wounded in Fight With Guards and Hunt After Ohio Jailbreak

Context - explained by ACL:

After a break for liberty at an Ohio prison, all but one of the convicts had been returned to the prison, and an all-night search failed to find the hiding place of the lone fugitive, who is serving a term for criminal assault.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1926, page 3]

By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 9. - Only 1 of the 13 convicts who made a break for liberty at the Ohio Penitentiary yesterday remained at large today. An all night searc hfailed to reveal the hiding place of the lone fugitive. Oliver Glaspy, sentenced to a 20-year term for criminal assault.

The other 12 were returned to the prison last night, several bearing bullet wounds received in the fight with prison officials as they fled and later with police officers when they were captured. None is seriously injured. The prison officials wounded also will recover. Warden Thomas has announced an immediate investigation to determine the responsibility for the escape.

Wield Knife and Guns. Seizing their opportunity when visitors were being let in yesterday, the 13 men, several of them life-termers, pushed their way into the guard rooms. After stabbing Guard Elmer Callahan the men seized revolvers in the room, clubbed Guards Bennett, John Cochran; a trustee, E. J. Land-acre, and William Payne, the warden's secretary, and broke through to the outer gate.

They fled out the front entrance in the face of gunfire by guards and Warden Thomas. One of the convicts, Harold Neringartner, was shot in the arm.

Another, Thomas Gerak, was overtaken by a guard and captured near the prison. Eight of the men fled to Broad street, forced a woman out of her automobile and started West in the car. Another, James Johnson, Cleveland, seized a second car and followed his companions.

Meanwhile local police and nearby towns had been notified. Three Columbus motor cycle policemen started in pursuit of the men, while London, Ohio, police, started out to meet them.

As the convict car neared London the driver was confronted by the London police car parked crosswise of the road. He took to the ditch and the eight convicts jumped from the machine and ran into the cornfield at the side of the road, dividing into two groups. Police Start Hunt. A detachment of Columbus police arrived shortly and a hunt started. One of the groups resisted for some time before surrendering. Of the convicts, John Nieman, Columbus, had two fingers shot off; Charles Mithoefer, Columbus, was shot in the hand; George Lostiner, Cleveland, was wounded in the leg, and Barton Carter, Drake County, was shot in the shoulder. The others, Robert Hunt, Cleveland; Arthur Clayton, Cleveland; Frank Procter, Cincinnati, and Frank Mills, Toledo, were uninjured.

While the hunt was on Johnson, the convict, driving alone, drove up to the scene and surrendered.

The nine men were bundled into a police patrol and taken back to prison under escort of 40 guards. Late last night William Smith, the twelfth convict, gave himself up at a barbecue shop in Columbus city limits. He was tired and hungry, he told the proprietor, and made no resistance when the latter phoned for police.

George Lostiner, leader of the band, is under life sentence for murder, and has a long list of robberies and major crimes on his record. Four of the group were serving sentences for murder.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Yesterday's paper

November 8, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, The Bismarck Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Indianapolis Times, The Alaska Daily Empire, New Britain Herald, and Brownsville Herald.

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Today's paper

November 9, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Imperial Valley Press, Daily Kennebec Journal, Brownsville Herald, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, and The Daily Worker.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 10 Tuesday, November 9, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Crime & CourtsAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Evening StarWashington, D.C.

12 OF 13 ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT

Several Wounded in Fight With Guards and Hunt After Ohio Jailbreak

Context - explained by ACL:

After a break for liberty at an Ohio prison, all but one of the convicts had been returned to the prison, and an all-night search failed to find the hiding place of the lone fugitive, who is serving a term for criminal assault.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1926, page 3]

By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 9. - Only 1 of the 13 convicts who made a break for liberty at the Ohio Penitentiary yesterday remained at large today. An all night searc hfailed to reveal the hiding place of the lone fugitive. Oliver Glaspy, sentenced to a 20-year term for criminal assault.

The other 12 were returned to the prison last night, several bearing bullet wounds received in the fight with prison officials as they fled and later with police officers when they were captured. None is seriously injured. The prison officials wounded also will recover. Warden Thomas has announced an immediate investigation to determine the responsibility for the escape.

Wield Knife and Guns. Seizing their opportunity when visitors were being let in yesterday, the 13 men, several of them life-termers, pushed their way into the guard rooms. After stabbing Guard Elmer Callahan the men seized revolvers in the room, clubbed Guards Bennett, John Cochran; a trustee, E. J. Land-acre, and William Payne, the warden's secretary, and broke through to the outer gate.

They fled out the front entrance in the face of gunfire by guards and Warden Thomas. One of the convicts, Harold Neringartner, was shot in the arm.

Another, Thomas Gerak, was overtaken by a guard and captured near the prison. Eight of the men fled to Broad street, forced a woman out of her automobile and started West in the car. Another, James Johnson, Cleveland, seized a second car and followed his companions.

Meanwhile local police and nearby towns had been notified. Three Columbus motor cycle policemen started in pursuit of the men, while London, Ohio, police, started out to meet them.

As the convict car neared London the driver was confronted by the London police car parked crosswise of the road. He took to the ditch and the eight convicts jumped from the machine and ran into the cornfield at the side of the road, dividing into two groups. Police Start Hunt. A detachment of Columbus police arrived shortly and a hunt started. One of the groups resisted for some time before surrendering. Of the convicts, John Nieman, Columbus, had two fingers shot off; Charles Mithoefer, Columbus, was shot in the hand; George Lostiner, Cleveland, was wounded in the leg, and Barton Carter, Drake County, was shot in the shoulder. The others, Robert Hunt, Cleveland; Arthur Clayton, Cleveland; Frank Procter, Cincinnati, and Frank Mills, Toledo, were uninjured.

While the hunt was on Johnson, the convict, driving alone, drove up to the scene and surrendered.

The nine men were bundled into a police patrol and taken back to prison under escort of 40 guards. Late last night William Smith, the twelfth convict, gave himself up at a barbecue shop in Columbus city limits. He was tired and hungry, he told the proprietor, and made no resistance when the latter phoned for police.

George Lostiner, leader of the band, is under life sentence for murder, and has a long list of robberies and major crimes on his record. Four of the group were serving sentences for murder.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Yesterday's paper

November 8, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, The Bismarck Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Indianapolis Times, The Alaska Daily Empire, New Britain Herald, and Brownsville Herald.

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Today's paper

November 9, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Imperial Valley Press, Daily Kennebec Journal, Brownsville Herald, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, and The Daily Worker.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 10 Tuesday, November 9, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Crime & CourtsAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Evening StarWashington, D.C.

12 OF 13 ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT

Several Wounded in Fight With Guards and Hunt After Ohio Jailbreak

Context - explained by ACL:

After a break for liberty at an Ohio prison, all but one of the convicts had been returned to the prison, and an all-night search failed to find the hiding place of the lone fugitive, who is serving a term for criminal assault.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1926, page 3]

By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 9. - Only 1 of the 13 convicts who made a break for liberty at the Ohio Penitentiary yesterday remained at large today. An all night searc hfailed to reveal the hiding place of the lone fugitive. Oliver Glaspy, sentenced to a 20-year term for criminal assault.

The other 12 were returned to the prison last night, several bearing bullet wounds received in the fight with prison officials as they fled and later with police officers when they were captured. None is seriously injured. The prison officials wounded also will recover. Warden Thomas has announced an immediate investigation to determine the responsibility for the escape.

Wield Knife and Guns. Seizing their opportunity when visitors were being let in yesterday, the 13 men, several of them life-termers, pushed their way into the guard rooms. After stabbing Guard Elmer Callahan the men seized revolvers in the room, clubbed Guards Bennett, John Cochran; a trustee, E. J. Land-acre, and William Payne, the warden's secretary, and broke through to the outer gate.

They fled out the front entrance in the face of gunfire by guards and Warden Thomas. One of the convicts, Harold Neringartner, was shot in the arm.

Another, Thomas Gerak, was overtaken by a guard and captured near the prison. Eight of the men fled to Broad street, forced a woman out of her automobile and started West in the car. Another, James Johnson, Cleveland, seized a second car and followed his companions.

Meanwhile local police and nearby towns had been notified. Three Columbus motor cycle policemen started in pursuit of the men, while London, Ohio, police, started out to meet them.

As the convict car neared London the driver was confronted by the London police car parked crosswise of the road. He took to the ditch and the eight convicts jumped from the machine and ran into the cornfield at the side of the road, dividing into two groups. Police Start Hunt. A detachment of Columbus police arrived shortly and a hunt started. One of the groups resisted for some time before surrendering. Of the convicts, John Nieman, Columbus, had two fingers shot off; Charles Mithoefer, Columbus, was shot in the hand; George Lostiner, Cleveland, was wounded in the leg, and Barton Carter, Drake County, was shot in the shoulder. The others, Robert Hunt, Cleveland; Arthur Clayton, Cleveland; Frank Procter, Cincinnati, and Frank Mills, Toledo, were uninjured.

While the hunt was on Johnson, the convict, driving alone, drove up to the scene and surrendered.

The nine men were bundled into a police patrol and taken back to prison under escort of 40 guards. Late last night William Smith, the twelfth convict, gave himself up at a barbecue shop in Columbus city limits. He was tired and hungry, he told the proprietor, and made no resistance when the latter phoned for police.

George Lostiner, leader of the band, is under life sentence for murder, and has a long list of robberies and major crimes on his record. Four of the group were serving sentences for murder.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Yesterday's paper

November 8, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, The Bismarck Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Indianapolis Times, The Alaska Daily Empire, New Britain Herald, and Brownsville Herald.

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Today's paper

November 9, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Imperial Valley Press, Daily Kennebec Journal, Brownsville Herald, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, and The Daily Worker.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 10 Tuesday, November 9, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Crime & CourtsAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Evening StarWashington, D.C.

12 OF 13 ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT

Several Wounded in Fight With Guards and Hunt After Ohio Jailbreak

Context - explained by ACL:

After a break for liberty at an Ohio prison, all but one of the convicts had been returned to the prison, and an all-night search failed to find the hiding place of the lone fugitive, who is serving a term for criminal assault.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1926, page 3]

By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 9. - Only 1 of the 13 convicts who made a break for liberty at the Ohio Penitentiary yesterday remained at large today. An all night searc hfailed to reveal the hiding place of the lone fugitive. Oliver Glaspy, sentenced to a 20-year term for criminal assault.

The other 12 were returned to the prison last night, several bearing bullet wounds received in the fight with prison officials as they fled and later with police officers when they were captured. None is seriously injured. The prison officials wounded also will recover. Warden Thomas has announced an immediate investigation to determine the responsibility for the escape.

Wield Knife and Guns. Seizing their opportunity when visitors were being let in yesterday, the 13 men, several of them life-termers, pushed their way into the guard rooms. After stabbing Guard Elmer Callahan the men seized revolvers in the room, clubbed Guards Bennett, John Cochran; a trustee, E. J. Land-acre, and William Payne, the warden's secretary, and broke through to the outer gate.

They fled out the front entrance in the face of gunfire by guards and Warden Thomas. One of the convicts, Harold Neringartner, was shot in the arm.

Another, Thomas Gerak, was overtaken by a guard and captured near the prison. Eight of the men fled to Broad street, forced a woman out of her automobile and started West in the car. Another, James Johnson, Cleveland, seized a second car and followed his companions.

Meanwhile local police and nearby towns had been notified. Three Columbus motor cycle policemen started in pursuit of the men, while London, Ohio, police, started out to meet them.

As the convict car neared London the driver was confronted by the London police car parked crosswise of the road. He took to the ditch and the eight convicts jumped from the machine and ran into the cornfield at the side of the road, dividing into two groups. Police Start Hunt. A detachment of Columbus police arrived shortly and a hunt started. One of the groups resisted for some time before surrendering. Of the convicts, John Nieman, Columbus, had two fingers shot off; Charles Mithoefer, Columbus, was shot in the hand; George Lostiner, Cleveland, was wounded in the leg, and Barton Carter, Drake County, was shot in the shoulder. The others, Robert Hunt, Cleveland; Arthur Clayton, Cleveland; Frank Procter, Cincinnati, and Frank Mills, Toledo, were uninjured.

While the hunt was on Johnson, the convict, driving alone, drove up to the scene and surrendered.

The nine men were bundled into a police patrol and taken back to prison under escort of 40 guards. Late last night William Smith, the twelfth convict, gave himself up at a barbecue shop in Columbus city limits. He was tired and hungry, he told the proprietor, and made no resistance when the latter phoned for police.

George Lostiner, leader of the band, is under life sentence for murder, and has a long list of robberies and major crimes on his record. Four of the group were serving sentences for murder.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 9, 1926, page 3.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.

Yesterday's paper

November 8, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, The Bismarck Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Indianapolis Times, The Alaska Daily Empire, New Britain Herald, and Brownsville Herald.

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Today's paper

November 9, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Imperial Valley Press, Daily Kennebec Journal, Brownsville Herald, Evening Star, The Indianapolis Times, and The Daily Worker.