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Because their escape obviously was well worked out in advance, they made it look easy. Using scissors on the convict driver, Touhy commandeered a garbage truck inside the prison yard. Loading some ladders and his colleagues-in-flight on to it (and taking along two guards, one of whom was mauled, as hostages), Touhy drove the truck to silo-shaped guard tower No. 3. There the criminals shot and slightly wounded Guard Herman Kross, scaled the 35-ft. wall, walked down the tower's outside steps, hopped into Guard Kross's car (parked near by) and drove away...
Griffin is a graduate of Wisconsin-got his first break as a kid reporter when he helped convict a mild-mannered but bigamous itinerant preacher who had killed his extra wife, painstakingly disjointed her body and buried each piece separately. On the crest of this achievement, Griffin sailed for France, got a job on the Paris Times, was at Le Bourget when Lindbergh landed...
...stupidity to be caught. Peter Krug informed the court: "It is not my intention to testify against Max Stephan. I have only to clear out the facts and tell the truth." Coldly, in a heavy guttural, he told the facts in detail. The jury took but 83 minutes to convict Max Stephan of treason, the first such conviction under Federal statute since the Whiskey Rebellion trials in 1795. Since the Government did not demand his death, Max Stephan will probably escape the hangman...
Under Canada's rigid wartime price-and-wage fixing, Vancouver was the first city to convict a restaurateur who upped prices and a landlord who jacked apartment rents. Last week Vancouver became the first city to fine a company for raising wages...
Because only six of the Dresser melodies (best: My Gal Sal, Wabash, The Convict and The Bird) were considered sufficiently undated, Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger turned out four new tunes. Any or all of them (Here You Are, Oh, The Pity Of It All, Me and My Fella, On The Great White Way) should be best-seller-bound...