Newspapers and journals: Eugene Gumbleton attempted jail break
Date: 14 Jun 1929
Place: New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Four prisoners returned to jail
New Bedford, Mass., June 14 -- Four prisoners at the House of Correction who made a sensational dash for liberty yesterday were back in that institution in solitary confinement today, considerably the worse for their encounter with pursuing police and with a barking dog to thank for their capture.Their span of liberty was brief; less than half an hour after the four had lowered themselves out of a window on the second floor chair shop, through sawed and twisted steel bars and down an improvised rope made of twisted pieces of cane, all had been returned, two of them only after a severe clubbing.
A former ambulance driver for the police depatment espied them in prison garb only a minute after they had fled the shop in full daylight. The men, realizing they had been recognized dashed down the street, over a fence and into the rear door of an unoccupied house.
The driver, perceiving the hopelessnesss of pursuit while unarmed, hastened to a telephone to give the alarm. It was at this point that the dog came into action.
The animal, a big collie, had chased the quartet to the door of the house and there set up a continuous barking that eventually directed police and officials of the House of Correction to the place. A search revealed three of the men in the attic where William Hudson, Pawtucket, RI, burglar, elected to fight it out. Eugene Gumbleton, New City automobile thief, who is alleged to be wanted in New Jersey for attempted murder, bounded down a stairway with Jeffrey Belliveau[?] of this city, who was serving time for an abduction.
They ran into a platoon of police and although they attempted to fight their way through, were as quickly subdued as was Hudson who was given a severe clubbing.
It was not until the men had been returned to their cells that a check revealed that a fourth man, Arthur Ramano, Prividence, RI, thief, was missing and a policeman sent back to search the house again. Ramano was discovered clinging to a ceiling water pipe in the basement and was speedily pulled down.
North Adams Transcript. North Adams, Massachusetts. 14 Jun 1929
14 Jun 1929
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