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Harry Pierpont w/ fake gun jail escape attampt...
Harry Pierpont w/ fake gun jail escape attampt...
Item # 715589
September 24, 1934
THE BETHLEHEM GLOBE-TIMES, Penn. Sept. 24, 1931
* Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley
* Prohibition era gangster - bank robbers
* Jail escape attempt with fake soaps guns
* John Dillinger Gang associates
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "INQUIRY ENDS ESCAPE ATTEMPT WITH SOAP-GUNS" with subheads and related photo showing officials with the two soap guns used in the escape attempt.
Complete with 26 pages, nice condition.
wikipedia notes: While waiting for their turn in the electric chair, Makley and Pierpont carved a pair of revolvers from large bars of soap, and blackened them with shoe polish. On September 22, 1934, the two used these props to attempt an escape. They assaulted a guard and freed Clark from his cell nearby. Before they had gone far, Clark, who was not looking at an imminent death sentence, lost his nerve and retreated to his cell. Moments later, armed guards arrived and shot Makley and Pierpont. Makley, hit in the thorax and abdomen, died on the scene. Pierpont was seriously wounded, but survived and was later executed. Makley's death certificate states that internal hemorrhaging from these wounds caused his death. He is buried in the Sugar Ridge Cemetery in Leipsic, Ohio.
Category: The 20th Century
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