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[Photograph 2012.201.B1032.0769]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shot in the hip while trying to escape from police detectives, Carol Stanford Prock, former convict, is shown in Mercy Hospital with H. J. Hank Schmidt, detective, who fired the shot."
Date: January 28, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1032.0768]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Carel Stafford Prock, 21-year-old former convict who faces more charges of forgery, burglary and car theft than he can keep straight, made a wild dash for freedom from his bed at Mercy Hospital Thursday night. He was arrested down the street from the hospital by scoutcar officers, after he had hacksawed his way loose from his chains. He was in the hospital being treated for bullet wounds."
Date: January 31, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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