C.H. “Otto” Wood, sent to prison for 30 yearfs for the murder of A.W. Kaplan of Greensboro last December, and J.H. Starnes of Forsyth county, serving a long term for larceny, made a thrilling escape from the State prison in Raleigh Saturday morning. They overpowered Overseer Partin, took his revolver from him, forced him into an auto and drove out of the prison yard. they drove down New Bern avenue, held up a negro truck driver, forced him to drive them toward Durham, about 10 miles from which place they abandoned the truck.
A dispatch from Greensboro states that Wood and Starnes drove through there yesterday morning, pointed out to their driver the place where Wood attacked Kaplan, road on out of the city, beat and robbed the man in whose auto they were, and took his car.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., May 12, 1924
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