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...members of the team are Robert C. Conley '43, speaking on U. S. Politics; R. Richard Coombs '42, on Events Leading up to the American Revolution; Robert C. Lesserte '41, on Constitutional Development; John F. Prudden '42 on Geography of the U. S., and Chairman Burton R. Lewkowitz '43 on the Southwest...
Guard Troy Wade dozed in the shade of a tree, his shotgun beside him. Near by, Convict Frank Conley waited, watched, his hand on a knife hidden in his clothes. Far down at the end of the line he saw two convict guards saunter up to the driver of the prison water wagon-an Indian, in for rape-and train their guns on him. At the opposite end of the line two convict guards armed with shotguns quietly moved up on the regular prison guards. It was just...
...Frank Conley's moment. The tough, triangular-faced hillbilly with a term in the Federal penitentiary behind him was more resourceful and ruthless than the mass of sullen, stupefied convicts. He jumped Guard Wade, slashed with his knife, wounded him. The new guard, Claude Martin, still sitting down, raised his gun. He never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone...
They lined up the convicts and the disarmed guards, two abreast, drove them at a run four miles into the woods, the leaders riding horseback. In a thicket they stopped, conferred on the direction of flight, took the convicts' tobacco, turned them loose. Conley with five others headed south. Loftin moved west. Through the afternoon 104 convicts and guards straggled back to the prison...
...Frank Conley did not surrender. Twenty-four hours after his leap on Troy Wade he was found in a pit on the Ouachita River levee, still holding his shotgun, 50 yards from the spot where the posseman had been killed. A bullet through the throat had ended his flight...