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...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
Snarled a convict: "Guess we'd better take all of you. You guys take off your clothes. We need...
...hours and 54 miles away from San Quentin, the convicts sighted a creamery, jumped. The convict-clothed boardmen tumbled out of the careening automobile, screaming their identity just in time to keep police from shooting them down. The convict leader peered from a creamery window, got two barrels of buckshot full in the face. At that the other three, all wounded, marched out with hands in air and the most sensational break in San Quentin's history was over...
Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay seriously hurt, the convict leader died. To the shock of Boardmen Atherton, Stephens and Sykes was added chagrin when the recaptured convicts confessed that it was Clyde Stevens who had smuggled their guns into the prison. Next day on a swampy island in the Sacramento River, police caught Bandit Stevens...
...first issue of Western Trails Subscriber-Convict Capone may read "Maverick Law," "Double-Barreled Decoy," "Branded with Lead," "Trigger Tempest." He may correspond and exchange cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...