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M. masters; robber, breaks
iAIL ATFAIRBANKS; RECAP
TURED WITHIN FEW HOURS
(Fairbanks News»Miner.J
John E. McMasters, confessed rob
ber, was recaptured this morning il
hour safter he. had made successful
b, eak for liberty from the Fa.rbanks
federal jpil. He was taken into cus
* u.dy by Deputy. U. S. Marshal Pat
’ U Connoor and Fred E. Handy, pro
hi bit ion agent,, at. the VN itop-mile road
* hoouse. He made no resistance.
With Jim Robinson,, who is being
held for the grand jury pn a charge
at perjury, McMasters engineered the
;gil break which resulted in his es
•eape ana in Robinison receiving a
- thorough going-over at the hands of.
jfcil guards,. ’. V 1
, Plans for the break were piade
, " after supper last, nightt according- to
the. story, told the authorities, by Mc
Masters. The p.ot - came, to a head
about li:45>p. ra., when-Elvis Alford
asked a, guard to let. him go to the
lavatory.
Taking:* advantage, of this oppor
tunity*. Me Masters and Robinson wait
' td until Guard Jerry Norris had un
locked both, the inner and outer doors
to the cage. As Norris opened the
inner, door. Robinson asked for a
Pitcher of. water. The guard reached
in the cage. for. the. pitcher and hand
ed it to Dan. Kennedy* the other
. gparrf..
As nennedy returned with the
mater Me .asters threw a handful of
t, . red pepper, at Norris and Robinson
shoved on. the dc^ar, knocking Ken
nedy against the bars. The guards
grapped with the’ two prisoners and
ailierce. -to^hand encounter en
’ sued.
ivicmasters beat Kennedy to his
knees twice with repeated blows over
, the .lead with the. water pitcher. Soon,
the melee, .became general* and during
the confusion McMasters slipped out.
Uc was learned later that he lean to
the fron door and, heing unable to
. open mae his way to the oack en-,
trance, through which he made es- ]
* cape from the jail. .
Ry^thSi. time Kennedy had wrought |
blackjack into play and soon. Rob
• inson,.twno is a bigjJowerful man,
* surrendered. He promised to go back
to the ou without making more trou
* bte, buck when he regained his feet he
. suddenly seized a chair and brought
iteidowm over Kennedy’s head. The
, guard came back at him with, the
blackj£ok.. an, dgot in a blow that laid
Robinson on the floor unconscious
and removed him from the list of
• combatants
It was. believed that Robinson, and
c McMastena had Iti*. upon a place
* wueie they could 1 'de throughout the
remainder of tite night, and, during;
* Jiuost of the iorent on every likely hid
ing place was searched.
The officers had just about decided
to. give up the search for the day and
get some sleep after putting, in &
, shift cn,nearly 12. hours, when O’Con
nor and Handy decided, to obey a.
‘'hunch" and drive out the Richard
son highway. They had noot gon*
* fas when they came upon trades
which they .recognized as McMaster’s.
They, kept ,driving- on to the Nine
mile. where to iiliam St.. Loupe, owner
oi the place^ flagged them, lie told
them . .effiasters had arrived there
" about T-o'clock In Hie morning and
had gone to bed. St. Louis had rec
i agnized McMasters and realized he
bad probably broken out of jail, but
had na way to communicate with au
thorities. • .
Keieving- that the escaped prisoner
might he armed, the officers drew
tbeir guns and stepped into the front
* room of the'roadhouse. They found
McMasters in bed and very willing to
give himself up.' Be said, he luul in-’
. tended to make his way across the
boundary to Canada , via the upper
T’anana but had, not walked far before
hd decided t hat k* could never make
the walk. His eWthes were too light
ter keep nim warm on a long hike. The
agreement between him dnd Robin
** waa kimsetf aj-er,
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they ha dc.cupod from Jail, AlcMiu
ters said.
For assaults*j* the guar fc ami at
tempting to brjik j-i.il the two, men
are liable to a minimum sentence of
ten years in penitentiary and a max
imum sentence of twenty yean*.
Kobinsoon received • fractured
skull in the light and is under the*
care of a physician. The red pepper
ijhrown by McMasters was distributed
indiscriminately, a good portion of it
landing in Robinson’s eyes. Norris’
eyes were also filed with pepper, but
Kennedy shut his before the irritant
reached him.,(
ASSERTS PEOPLE AR£
LOSING COURT. RESPECT
MtASMNUTON.—Urging that U.
S. CMnatrsnoRers be given power to
try slight or casual violations of the
prohibition laws, Roscoe Pound, law
' enforcement commission member, as
serted before the Hquse judiciary
committee today that crime has in
creased enormously in recent years,
federal cofirt congestion has resulted
and wholesale trials of violators has
impaired the dignity of the courts.
He added that peope are consequent
ly losing respect for courts and law.
“LIFE FOR LIQUOR” LAW
COMES TO END IN MICHIGAN
LANSfllG, Mich.—Governor Green
todtey wrote the last chapter of
Michigan’s “life for liquor" law when
he commuted the life sentences of five
prohibition violators. The commuta
The commutations bring th e sen
tences to a term of 7 1-2 to 15 years
and compljr with the amendment to1
the State criminal code.
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NOTICE OF SALE.
Notts* is iMMbr.'Riven ihat at 2:0D-.
p. m. of Saturday, the lStth day of
March, 1930, at the front door of the
Commissioner's Office in. the-.town at.
Ophir, Alaska, the undersigned Ad
ministrator of the. Estate of Hubade
Hebertt, deceased, pursuant to an
order of the Probate Court for the
lnnoko Precinct, Fourth Judicial Di
vision of Alaska, dated February. 12,
1930, in which Court said Estate is
being probated, will offer forsale and
sell at public auction one undivided
half (1-2) interest in placer mining
claim known annd described as NO. 2
BELOW DISCOVERY, and also one
undivided half (1-2) interest in
plaoer mining claim known and de
scribed as NO. 3 BELOW DISCOV
ERY; both of said claims situated on
Xankee Creek, a..tributary..of the In
noko River, in said Precinct and Ju
dicial Division, said property being
the property of the above named:
estate. Terms: All cash at time of'
-.ale.
The undesigned reserves the right -
to reject any or all bids. ,
H. C. WALLICK,
Administrator. !
First publication, Feb. 157
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To M. P. Fleishman, hiB’.heirs, sue-,
cessors or assigns: I
You, and each of yoou, are hereby!
notified that 1, the undersigned, your
co-owner, have expended, in -labor and.:
improvements the sum of not less.
than one hundred dollars for the
years 1922, 1923, 192i, 1925, 1926,
1927, 1928, and 1929, upon the Mon
day Morning placer mining claim, lo
cated at the head of. Flat creek, in
Otter Precinct, Fourtth Division,
Territory of Alaska,-in .order to hold
said claim under the provisions of
Section 2224 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States and the amend
ments hereto concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said mining
claim for the period ending June 30,
19.9.
I Ami if, within ninety days after
the publication of this notice, you fail
or refuse to contribute, your, propor
tion erf said expenditure, namely, $26
per year for each of said y.ears, for
your one-quarter interest in- said
claim, as well as the cost of record'.;
ing the same, and the costs of'thin,
advertisement, your interest.in said,
claim will become the property of the-,
undersigned, your co-owner, who 'has
made' the required expenditures under
the terms of said Section 2324 of the
Kevised Statutes of the United States.
Mated Flat, Alaska, Feb. 26* 1930.’
PAUL WABNIG,
Co-owner Otter Precinct, Fourth
Division, Territory of Alaska,
residin gat Flat, Alaska.. I
First pub. Mar. 1; last, June 7.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEMt N BN ANA AND PLAT
Nenuu _____
Tavern Roadhouse --
Knigilt’s Beadhouae ._...
i-Mlle Roadhouse.6®
Miles
00
17%
Diamond Roadhouse
Roosevelt
Lake Minchumina
Trappers’ Cabin
76>
.. 89
J16
182
Lone Star Roadhouse . 10®
Telida Roadhouse.. 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse __187
East Fork Roadhouse.) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse — 227%
Big River Roadhouse_241
McGrath ___ 268
Takotna ___...._ 280
Bill Goss' Roadhouse _ 291
Ophir______300
MeCafferty ..-.— 896
Brown Creak shelter cabin .. 818
Frita eschar cabin .. 388
First Chance shelter cabin . 846
Scbermeyer R. H. __ 369
Iditarod __379
Flat ______ 884
Bnnanzra aheler cabin, 12 miles
Crooked Creek shelter cabin. 19
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