Page 1 of 2

Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:21 pm
by vasa croe
I haven't found anything on this here, but the Deer Lodge Prison had either 12 or 15 prisoners escape at different times in July of 1968. Here are a couple of the articles I have found with some names mentioned but have not found any stating that all escapees were caught.

Image

Image

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1969 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:23 pm
by masootz
are the papers where these articles were printed local to montana?

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:25 pm
by vasa croe
masootz wrote:are the papers where these articles were printed local to montana?


Whoops....meant to include that. Yes they are.....

The first came from The Montana Standard in Butte, July 18, 1968 and the second was from The Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell from July 15, 1968

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:29 pm
by vasa croe
Here is a third article stating more names.

Image

From The Montana Standard July 23, 1968

Now the part I find particularly interesting is this:

Image

It says this guy took a hostage, tied her up, blind folded her, stole 3 high-powered rifles and I can't find anything on him being re-captured.

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:23 pm
by Coffee Time
Hi,

I found a couple of more articles about this incident -- as of July 26th, Kelly was recaptured, but Harold Bates, the last unrecaptured escapee, was still missing. Also, the "mystery man in hills"!

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:49 pm
by Coffee Time
According to this article, all of the escapees were recaptured.

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:12 pm
by vasa croe
Coffee Time wrote:According to this article, all of the escapees were recaptured.


Haven't seen that one, but one of the articles I posted earlier has a conflicting number of 15 escapees.

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:33 pm
by Coffee Time
Yeah, I noticed that...and the papers often get things wrong, though I don't think LE would state that all were recaptured if they weren't (?).

My jaw kinda dropped when I found this:

Montana State Prison Records 1869-1974
http://cdm103401.cdmhost.com/cdm/search ... m/Catholic

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:15 am
by Quicktrader
Coffee Time wrote:Yeah, I noticed that...and the papers often get things wrong, though I don't think LE would state that all were recaptured if they weren't (?).

My jaw kinda dropped when I found this:

Montana State Prison Records 1869-1974
http://cdm103401.cdmhost.com/cdm/search ... m/Catholic


Why?

Re: Deer Lodge Escape July 1968 - 12-15 convicts escaped

PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:39 pm
by Coffee Time
Because finding something like that means I have to stay up all night looking through them all... :cry: