Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Still at large in New Zealand last week was Convict Cecil Gurr Otto who also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only...
...Hypocrite. In Frankfort, Ky., police looked for an escaped convict named Donald Roberts, 20, who could be identified by the slogan tattooed on his chest: "CRIME DOES...
...storm gathered and brooded over the flat Florida swamplands, Convict Angelo Massina, 30, sat tensely in the prison truck, making his plans. When the truck stopped for a traffic light outside Winter Haven, Massina jumped down and lit out across a field toward an orange grove...
...side of law and order" he learned the names of the two suspects, broadcast a plea to "B.M." and "J.G." to surrender. Later, the two men sought by the cops-Benedict Macri, a garment manufacturer whose shop the union had been trying to organize, and John Giusto, an ex-convict -were indicted for murder...
...speeds or overparks doesn't have a chance before the judge," he said. "But let a pilfering politician steal public funds, and you'll have to sweat blood before you find 12 good and honest men to convict...