From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 19, 1974:

The suspect being held for the Nov. 13 murder, kidnapping, and robbery at Lawrence’s Sanctuary Club had escaped from the Shawnee County jail overnight, but had been recaptured at about 1:45 p.m. Undersheriff Bob Jackson said Long had now been placed in a maximum security section of the jail. “You can be sure he won’t get out again,” he said. Officers from the Shawnee County Sheriff’s office, Topeka and Lawrence police departments, the Kansas Highway Patrol, and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation had assisted in the recapture of Donald H. Long, who was wanted for first-degree murder and 10 other crimes in connection with the robbery at the Sanctuary. Long, 28, and fellow prisoner Gary L. Mathews had escaped by prying open bars on a plumbing inspection door, crawling above the jail ceiling to an equipment room, and breaking out a first-floor window in the court house, according to Shawnee County Jim Chaffee. A third inmate, Benjamin Reed of Topeka, had also escaped with Long and Mathews but had later turned himself in, Chaffee said.