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Two of the three convicts who escaped near Chowchilln several weeks ago while being taken from a road camp to Folsom have keen recaptured, following a series of robberies in Fresno and other counties. James Gregg, one of the escapes, is in the county jail at Fresno charged with the murder of a Japanese woman near Lodi} and Frank Purio, the other escape is in the Fresno county hospital, where he is expected to die as the result of a bullet wound. The aeries of operations by the bandits culminated in a pistol battle in a Kingsburg garage yesterday, during which George W. Boyle, 60, Kingsburg constable, received four bullet wounds and Purio was shot. Gregg was arrested by Southern Pacific officers yesterday afternoon on board a freight train bound north out of Fresno. The officers, recognizing him as a convict, gave him no opportunity for resistance. They brought him to police headquarters, where he was booked,* charged with murder, and sent to the county jail. Purio and Gregg, who escaped from a Folsom prison guard near Chowchilla several weeks ago after they had assaulted him in a prison van. and Canton, who escaped from the Kern county road camp last Wednesday, kidnaping Albert Woodworth, 29, a Los Angeles taxidriver and at the point of a pistol forced him to drive them over the valley while they engaged in a series of holdups in San Joaquin cities and towns and in Lodi shot and killed the Japanese woman, according to Albert Woodworth. Kidnaped by Gregg and Purio near Saugus at the point of a gun and forced to chauffeur the duo, with Canton, about the valley while the series of crimes were staged, Albert Woodworth, 29, Los Angeles taxi driver, told the story of the shooting to police in gasps shortly after he staggered into police quarters in an exhausted condition. He told them that Boyle was seriously wounded, that Purio at that time was lying in a pool of blood in the tonneau of an automobile which had been abandoned at Inyo Street and Van Ness Avenue, that Gregg had left the machine at the southern outskirts of the* city and that Canton jumped from the car on the highway near Kingsburg. Rushing to the street intersection, police found the car and Purio lying within. A bullet had penetrated his Jaw and had lodged in his neck, leaving him probably mortally wounded.