Notorious Georgia Escape Artist Makes A Jail Break

Escape Expert Recaptured

SAVANNAH, Ga. GP) Forrest Turner, notorious Georgia escape expert,' who with two other men led a wholesale break April 16 from Tattnall state prison, today was back behind bars while police combed this city for two companions who fled when Turner was captured last night. Police Sgt. H. W. Hutto said one ! of the fugitives was believed to be [ Leland Harvey, like Turner a hard- : to-hold convict with a long record of jailbreaks. Harvey and a third prisoner, D. C. Black, were the ringleaders with Turner in engineering the 25-man break. Turner was seized without a struggle when Motorcycle Patrol- , man W. A. Shuman shot out the i tires on the car in which the three were riding near the Savannah waterfront, Hutto said. An automatic shotgun and a pistol were found in the car. Capture of Turner brought to 20 | the number of convicts returned to custody since the mass escape, an episode which brought on a multiple investigation of conditions i at the "model’’ prison. A state legislative committee, reporting yesterday to Gov. Ellis Arnall, told of  finding evidence of vice, gambling  and illicit whiskey distilling in the | prison prior to the administration of the present warden, H. R. DuVall.

Location: Savannah, GA, USA

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