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...called for inspection of the job) or to bring timber to shore up his shaft. He just ripped up a patch of concrete flooring near the garage's main support pillar and began to dig. At 18 feet, as he was trying to dislodge a big rock, a cave-in buried him up to the waist in loose sand and gravel. When he tried to wriggle out he discovered that he was trapped; his right leg was doubled beneath him and pinned immovably by the boulder...
...series' on public enemies by Hearst's International News Service, identified the man as William Raymond Nesbit, 50, Iowa jewel thief, murderer-by-dynamite and escaped convict. Jimmy thought the face was familiar; it looked like "Ray," a man who was living in a cave in a park not ten minutes from St. Paul's downtown...
Jimmy and five of his pals went to Indian Mounds Park and tiptoed up to the cave. Ray was nowhere in sight, but smoke was curling out of the cave's chimney. Boldly, the boys dropped some snow down the chimney to make the fire smoke and goad Ray into showing his face. When he did, Jimmy Lewis and his men took one good look...
...minutes later, a squad car answered their frenzied telephone summons. Two cops took their stand outside the cave entrance and called to Ray to come out with his hands up. He surrendered meekly, admitted he was Nesbit, sought by the FBI since 1946. In his pocket the cops found a clipping of the Dispatch story that had trapped...
...putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins from a Ken tucky cave...