Be 20 a “3AM
1 Theodore Bundy had
<t eksawing a hole o ol Hoe his pale
kreen prison cell before guar¢
hwarte big plan break
death tee Ri s6NS >
But Tr Whom is i
in another state, was still fg,
When the guards uncovered hi
his
at the 37-year-old inmate's “habits
ously, the spokesman said, “es
brown-haired
dof killing at least 8
HRT
Five years ago he was nentonced
urdering Lisa Le
pigsty.
Though
They hal bo
important. appeal at
Court and had be ee
tnd Margaret Bown
sburg, as they
house at
erned about Bundy.
at he had just. lost
Florida Supreme
hap
he was practicing for a run outside the prise
ting on orders from prison officia
rds , Searched
pepe ~ i
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Acting on orders from pi icials, guards searched
Bundy’s cell and found that a section had been cut from a
steel bar in the cell door. The bar, when removed, would
have given Bundy room to crawl through onto a walkwa
cell's door. The bar, when removed, would
°
ven Bundy room to crawl through onto
cds also searched the cells
of Florida's 219 other death row inmates. In
f Manuel Valle, four doors down from
they found more haclaaw blades and
that had also been cu
paint or toothpaste
another ate
‘We wold assume they pare relate
we ait 2 eseumme thas poe
the corrections s
“Th the ba
dckah a Coral
sand a a pair of work gloves, to the
mhing over the
round part of
n. They then moved Bundy to a cell
Though they had cut holes out of |
their death row cells, and
Valle till
1m prison, Brz
There are several paths the
ut each of the path
id, would have required passage
ape through the nearest
xample, they would
id to out through more bar:
dropped down three stories, crossed a
patrolled snd open yard
limbed two sd
To escape through the front e
ould have had t get
sand. about adozen looked
‘Yet Bundy has fooled authorities
“before. While awaiting trial
der in Colorado, he escaped t
'
here, he chang a into the jel
zstreet clothe in.
spe
deputy boasted that
little chance of an
tm
an ‘S’ on his chest,”
and
the: deputy seid
ne man has escaped from
Forde’ death row. Si
; then slipped out
rough the pr on’s main gate. Elev-
r, he was recaptured in a
FBrjotel room in Santee, S.C
= Information from Times wires was
used in t rt. P
rane
~,
(AP) —Es-
TALLAHASSEE (
eape contraband. found ‘on,
death-row ‘inmate-."Theodore
Bundy last month likel: as
poate ‘lorida State
0
weapons and’ other items
{nto the facility, a state investiga
tor geld today.
it Wiley Clark, an investi-
gun for State ‘Attorney Eugene
hitworth, aaid Bun probably
did not refiiGel tte
directly from the two guards. ae
stead, other inmates probably
sold them to the convicted killer
for the going rate of $10 a blade.
of items authorities say the
guards brought into the prison,
lar!
Cla ho i is based in Starke,
said prison officials will finish in
two weeks a report on the contra-
and and where it came from.
“It’s hard to believe he (Bun~
t
is may have smuggled in bl blades used | by Bundy
dy) could have gotten the hack,
saw blades.from’ yhere 2
Clark said. “The (1 lade) ee
put in another: inmate!
and that’s wherein al pra be
ty, he got them,
Bundy, ‘convicted of killing
two Florida State University so-
rority sisters, both from St. Pe-
tersburg, and a North Florida
had been cut at the top and bot-
tom and put back in placo with
au-
Reais LDA, of
ll had been cut.
ate “death 10 row in the
1978 Elling ofta Coral Ganiee
police officer.
of Koystene ‘Heights, wore’ ar.
rested Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 by au-
thorities. McKenzie was charged
with smuggling 60 rounds of 22
uy vo separate \
caliber aromunition into the pris
on and. Harvey was -accused of
ing in hacksaw blades, blades, files,
wrogehe and and fireworks.. :
¥ released
nizance bonds.
‘The weapons the guards are
ccused of, of smuggling were found
on Q” wi ing, the most secure
section of the prison and where
escape risks are hous
Bundy
wing after the escape attempts,
Authgaiiod g pris
on ards
and found other weapons, aminu-
nition and keys to cells in prison-
ors cells and in their
tn searches that preceded ‘the ar-
rests of the guards,
Bundy “had blades simi
the blades found in the other
2 (cells),” corrections spokesman
Vernon Bradford said. “They
may or may. not be connected. ||
zed Meanwhile, probably before, Q
wing had their own thing going.”
As
said Brian Pimm, an
id. Hoy rpsccurity investigator with the state Department of Cor.
of high-quality homemade ‘rections’ Bureau of Internal Affairs, the Times.
cay ted,
an i
fi » & Newspaper reported, * Pimm said an investigation ‘g awned by the
‘lorida State Pri ome of the findings is continuing and should be finished in
tri State investigators said two weeks. On Wednesda is is
the items discovered at started administering polygraph tests to 115
'Q Wing were hacksaw ‘blades, Buns, bullets and prison employees, nil ot whom have either :
ifpaster keys, the Florida Times-Union reposted ing i
ly
‘today. inal ‘Wing, the Times-Union reported
Three pre Reai erg arrested in ~The group,
leonnection with the finds, the ‘Himes Lines but the three prison officials who allegedly scl
(reported. iP {he items seemed to have done so indenere
they Cnet) t of each other, said Clark,
over Q Wing,” said Ric ee :
\ Ident of the state prison, 16 mile rest of Starke, Although at the prac, Rabe, of weapons
i wawne inher tre peers Rare or perjous than most because it invelved. grant
‘ ‘Sscebe-prone inmates are kept; officials said. ballets ond. ataff, said Clark, Contraband hack-
y for @ Hock but ‘this ‘cutithey the
ideath row inmate Ted ‘Bundy’s cell, said Wiley Yeats .ago, A
\ A guats4n investigator for the th Judilal Checy, each pts flood ity coughs opped 0 $10 ;
[Sate Attorney's Office, the Times-Union re. Soon He a ‘Wing were bought for $200, Choe
{Death row inmate :
said, : : :
ye ey ieve is” gaia Tt «
who was convicted of killing two lege State but gat’, dard to believe is,” said Di .
ine ~
in each of ther cell had bean nah Bat pthers in jeopardy? Doesn 'the.care? Is his need
[carefully replaced, officials said. <=r-tsoc pike .
| dy. Was removed to:Q ‘Wing’ foi! ex ee 7
char fey Baise at cat oon Ekg three guards Were identified as Byrdua
. (the inmates) were making keys to the MoKensie, 47, and Rogor G., Harvey, whens :
core, ‘Those Keys worked; I checked thom: arrested Aug. 2, and Brian Edwards, was rene .
\ said Clark, adding that the discovery in @ Wing ed this month, the Times-Union reported. All
\ Victe areigularly frightening, “Those typo of cont fat worked in Q Wing.
victs are the worst of the worst” i
Epos
{McKenzie and Edwards strongly denied any
an inmate led-to the finding July “involvement in the matter.
p from an - Harvey could not be «
(31 of the cache of ‘weapons, keys and. ™mapsin thé’ reached for comment, the newspaper reported,
——— ene, -
BUNDY
- Death sentence, Florida.
4
'Death Row Escape
Is Reported Thwarted
STARKE, Fla., July 19 (AP) Theo-
dore Bundy, condemned for killing two
sorority sisters and a child, and an-
other death row inmate were caught i in
apparent attempt to break out of.
Florida State Prison, a state prison
spokesman said today.
A bar in each of their cells had been
gloves and escape items were
found in Mr. Bundy’s cell Wednesday,
said the spoke
while awaiting trial in the murder of a
Michigan nurse vacationing at
Mr. Bradford said the other inmate
ing a Coral Gables police officer on
2,
‘A bar in each cell had been cut at the
Areport of the incident will be sent to
local prosecutors to determine if the
twoprisoners will be formally charged.
._THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1984
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