Myrtle Alvina Hetrick: Escape

Myrtle Alvina Hetrick was born about 1902.

Inmate: #8598 Nebraska State Prison

Rec: 1922

Escape: 1 yr

Ruby Fox and Myrtle Hetrick met while incarcerated at the State Reformatory for Women in York, Nebraska. Ruby was serving time for breaking and entering, and Myrtle for vagrancy. Unhappy with their treatment, Ruby and Myrtle engineered an escape. With the aid of an unnamed man, the two women fled Nebraska in an automobile. Authorities in Casper, Wyoming captured the fugitives. Upon their return to Nebraska, Ruby and Myrtle requested to go to the Nebraska State Prison rather than return to the woman's reformatory in York. They received their wish and were sentenced to one year at the Nebraska State Prison for their escape.

Here are the newspaper articles: 

Inmate: #8297 Nebraska State Prison

Rec: 1920

Crime: Escape

Term: 1 Yr

I didn't find out very much genealogy information, but they sure didn't want to go back to that Women's Reformatory. Photo of the Reformatory below.