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After Bank Robbers Joseph Nolen, his brother Ballard and Elmer Schuer broke out of Lewisburg, Pa.'s federal penitentiary, they stole four cars, ran through and around Pennsylvania police roadblocks, stabbed, kidnaped, looted and finally, in a Philadelphia suburb, held a family captive for 19 hours (TIME, Sept. 22). Then they headed for Scranton, took a wrong turn, came to New York instead. When they ran short of cash, they staged a three-minute raid on a Bronx bank, got $12,680. Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear...
...FRED BALLARD Lincoln...
...know who we are," said 26-year-old Joseph Nolen of Woodbine, Ky. "We're not going to hurt you-we just want your house for a day. If you do what we tell you, nobody will be hurt." As Nolen pushed open the back door, his brother Ballard, 22, and Elmer Schuer, 21, of Chicago appeared from behind a trellis, pointing shotguns at Mrs. Hill. When the men had searched the house from cellar to attic, Mrs. Hill asked them if they would like some breakfast. "Yes, we'd appreciate it," replied Joseph politely. She fixed them...
...tell her that the car had broken down and she couldn't pick her up. A Fuller brush salesman telephoned, and she asked him to deliver the brushes she had ordered some other day. At 4 p.m., when Susan and Betsy came home from school and found Ballard guarding their mother (the other two had gone out somewhere on an errand), they thought it was some kind of joke...
...hours later Hill came home from work, and Ballard ushered the whole family into the kitchen for dinner. They were all seated at a meal of canned soup, spaghetti, chili con carne, milk and coffee when Joseph and Schuer returned. "May I come in?" asked Joseph politely, standing in the kitchen doorway. Later the men played poker. They asked Betsy to join them, but she said that she played only canasta. The robbers told her they didn't know that game. Most of the time they kept the radio tuned to dance music, and they used no profanity...