Guard Seriously Wounds Men Escaping Over Wall Joliet, Jan. 17.
Five prisoners, serving xa terms in the State penitentiary here, to-day attempted to escape but were foiled by the alertness of a prison guard.
The prisoners were Harry Gerkin' serving a thí ar term for murder; Peter Ristich, serving for as a habitual criminal; Donald Lo!
William Yoho and Edward Robbli all serving from one year to life for robbery.
'The attempted escape was made' while all five prisoners were working in the laundry. They overpowered the guard and scaled the wall with a make-shift ladder made of clothes: hangers, Despite the gathering dusk, Mr. Thomas Shaw, another guard, shot and seriously wounded Gerkin and Lofts who fell inside the wall. Robblis surrendered on the approach of the prison police.
Ristich and Yoho succeeded in going bey n wall, but were y pursuing guards within 400 yards of the penitentiary—United Pre:
Service for Man Who Went to Assist Forces Memorial services were held on Suni afternoon y by the Fukui detachment of Japanese infantry for a Japanese civilian who voluntarily followed the ps to the front and 1] succumbed to illness after surviving e perils of machine-gun and shellfire, the "Shanghai United News" said yesterda:
The Japanese, Mr, Momoto Ima-a resident of Kumamoto ing to be of service forces, accompanied Soochow and Wusih, conducting himself in a courageous in the midst of the hostili-
Ithough he was not a soldier. died at Wusih on January 7 after an illness induced by exposure umulated
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