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NEWSPAPER CLIPPING WJ ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH June 21, 1932. | | | 24 32 7 bovedion: ESCARDSLAER SELEDHEREAS SWIMOLESUSPECT Prisoner Identified as Mur- derer of Denver Woman Who Was Sentenced to Prison for Life. * one ole - ing 2 > ve A men arrested Bt Louls Friday as Leonar@fHagey, accused in a wire-tapping swindle which cost telegraph companies about $14,500, bas been identified as an escaped murderer. St Louis police were informed today by the National Bureau of ‘Identification at Washington, D 'C., that Hagey is James Orville Ruriey. whe escaped from the pen- tentlary at Canon City, Colo., five j years ago. while serving a life term for murder. ' Hagey, or Turley, has been re- turned to Detroit. where he faces charges of obtaining money under false pretenses based on the wire- tapping swindle. Prosecuting At- torney Harry 8 Toy of Detroit is quoted in dispatches from that city as saying that Colorado can have _ Turley if that State wants him. . Pending word from Colorado, he -has withheld filing of tormal charges. Turley was convicted at Denver jin 1922 of the murder of Mra. Em- jmae Wiese, proprietor of a rooming house. At his trial alfeniste char- arterized his as a “dangerous ju. natic.” While waiting to be transferred from the Denver County jail to the ° penitentiary at Canon City Turley made a desperate effort to escape. In prison he became a member of the band, and when the band played a concert at Hugo, Colo., ia "¢ Beptember, 1927, Turley made ‘his BOCAPE eee >: A few days later Mra. George Nelson, wife of a rancher near Jarre Canon, was approached by three men who demanded food. They forced their way into the rancher's cabin and Mrs. Nelson fainted. When she revived she founé her right hand hed been pinned to the floor by an ice pick driven through the palm. She tdentified a picture of Turley as the leader of the group. Turley was arrested last Friday- at the Lincoln Hotel, 2326 Olive street, soon after he had arrived from Columbus, O. Police there had arrested Mre Florence Had- ley, also accused in the wire-tap- ping swindle, and among her pos- sessions were found passports to England for herself and Turley, un- der the name Hagey. - . Fingerprints sent to the Nation- al Bureau of léentification after Turiey’s arrest here resulted in his fdentification as the escaped mur- Gerer. He had admitted participat- ing in the wire-tapping swindle, with Mra. Hadley and a man who fs sought. Their scheme was to tap telegraph wires in an outlying district and send fake money or- ders which were cashed by Mrs. Hadley. NY) oe - 62-2L4/72L —-oP