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Oshawa Daily Times, 19 Sep 1927, p. 10

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THR 1 a---- * THE LONDON JA. (Continued from Page 7) ' bench taken from ti prisoners wash-room they scrambled over a low spot in the wall and leaped out | [§ into the backyards of houses facing Thames Street. Gives Alaym he alarm was given by the jail matron, Mrs. Ross, who found the i locked up and regaining e vacate consciousness in t headed ward. City police, tective Himer Oakley and Mackey, threw a cordon around the murky walls, in the he- fief that a fight was still in progress inside. Walsh and a couple of men! entered and released the turnkeys and followed through to the back- vard the course that led to liberty. A woman on Thames Street is sup- posed to have seen some of the men jump the wall and escape in the direction of Dundas street bridge. Another report that they had been seen near Carfrae Crescent caused a hurry call in that direction, while yet another story that the nrisoners were riding a freight train near Woodstock gave the police of that city an emergency call to join in the chase. None of the cities has pro- duced any result, but the alarm han heen hroadeast over Ontario,. and particularly to horder points. The official police descriptions of K the five fugitives follow: Edward Harlton, of London, Ont., formerly of St. Mary's, scheduled for trial at the Octoher Assizes on n charge of having shot and killed Mntoreyele Officer John Waddell in this city on Sept. 12, 1925, age 25, height, 5 feet 1134 inches in shoes: weight, 160 pounds, Light chestnut hair, heavy on top. Medium build. Long face, flushed cheeks and nrominent high cheek hones, Tips thick and protruding. Fair complex- ion, hrown eyes. Nationality, Cana- dian, Frank Martron, thick-set, 23 years old, hlue eyes, weighs 140. Height, i feet 7 inches, Virginian. Decided Southern accent, Held for criminal assanlt and on suspicion of having murderously assaulted Frank White, C.N.R. construction gang cook, a few days ago, Rog Agnew, aged 17, 120 Welling- top Street, London. Slim build; weight, 136 pounds; hlue eyes; grey | i suit, Ross McLeod, Thamesford, Ont., aged 21; weight, 155 pounds; height b feet 8 inches; brown hair and eyes; lump on left ear; wearing brown and Pld jail clothes and prison shoes, Ernest Brown, Thorndale, Ont, aged 28; weight 160 pounds; height, b feet 9 inches; brown hair and eyes. Warked in London for Chantler Coal Co, Held with Agnew and Mc- Leod for garage and store robberies in Oxford County and other places. This is the third time that Harl- ton. has escaped from jail, and the second time that he has broken jail in London. His first escape was from the Stratford jail in December, 1922, when he was being held on charges of housebreaking and theft. Shortly afterward he was recaptured in London, and was subsequently sentenced to two years at Kingston, Later while in the county jail here he Baw a chance to escape and took it, but returned the same might. Following the slaying of the con- stable there was a long search for Harlton, which ended with his cap- ture near Norval. Farming schools are to be estabh- lished in England, but the sowing of wild oats will not be included in the curriculum.--Brantford Expositor. The way things have been going this year; it wouldn't surprise us a bit to hear of a disastrous flood in the middle of the Sahara.~--Nashyille Banner. H first | y De- | alsh and Sergeants 528 am. --Daily. 6.20 am. --Daily. ASR an. --Daily except 2.22 pam. --Daily excep Rid pan. --Sunday ualy. 22 ras --Aeaily- AZ p.am.--~Daily. BAS a, irr except Sunday. C. P. R. TIME TABLE Tenine 2009 am. Daily. 205 pan. 5 A08 bu cso Sunday. 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