Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearby residents learned about the escape in the time-honored way: the siren began to wail. But with the phones out, Assistant Warden Clayton Davis had to send a man those six miles by car to report the escape to the sheriff in Wartburg. Capturing the wounded prisoner Ward was no problem; he was right outside the wall. Local roads were swiftly blocked off. But prison officials needed 45 minutes before they could organize a full-scale search. With six bloodhounds in the lead, a posse started after the group, which had disappeared in the direction of Frozen Head Mountain...
Then, at 1:45 p.m., a helicopter spotted a man walking by himself eight miles northwest of Brushy Mountain. A police car swiftly picked up David Powell, 27, a convicted murderer and the only black in the group. He offered no resistance. It turned out that he was the only convict from another cell block?he came from B?and guards theorized that he had had nothing to do with planning the break, that he saw men going up a ladder and simply joined the crowd. After the break, the others told Powell to find his own way. Shortly after...
...grew into such an incompetent criminal that he dropped telltale identification at the site of one breakin; got lost after a holdup and drove his getaway car back into the robbery neighborhood, to be pursued and caught by surprised police; was caught another time when he re-entered the window of a business as he tried to steal more items from a place he had already robbed. Despite his reputation as an escape artist, most of his many efforts ended in frustration...
...Montreal bar after his escape from the Missouri prison. Ray claimed he knew the blond Latin stranger only as "Raoul." He told Huie that Raoul had asked him to smuggle unnamed contraband into the U.S. from both Canada and Mexico, then buy a car and a rifle in Birmingham, and finally to drive to Memphis and check into a sleazy rooming house facing the Lorraine Motel, where King was staying. Ray insisted later to his lawyers that he was not even in the room overlooking the motel when King was shot. He was fixing the spare tire on his car...
...slowly but surely drawn first into sympathy with, and then active involvement in radical politics during the late '60s. He describes a famous scene outside Quincy House, when former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was surrounded by angry students and forced to speak briefly from the hood of a car before being led to safety by police. Although merely an interested spectator at that incident, Evans was a participant in the April 1969 occupation of University Hall, one of the last to enter the building, which he did at the urging of a friend. The experience he relates was clearly...