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...snatching August Luer, aged Alton, Ill. banker, St. Louis police and Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where...
...Last week President Roosevelt pardoned Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite who, convicted in 1930 of libeling a banker by addressing him as "a robber of widows and orphans," served a term in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Also pardoned was. his secretary. "Not only am I the only ex-convict in Congress," boasted Mr. Shoemaker, ''but I am the only man to emerge from the White House with two pardons as well...
...convict who pinioned Warden Prather was Wilbur Underhill, "The Tri-State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they...
...convicts with the warden changed cars frequently as they fled. One of the cars they commandeered was occupied by a tipsy driver. He did not seem to mind their taking his car and bottle, but swore that "no damned Irishman can take my hat away from me." A convict named Brady returned the hat. After that there was no further threat to kill the prison officials. "The liquor warmed them up," explained Warden Prather, who not long ago had allowed Underhill to take up a collection for an operation on his sick mother. Near Welch. Okla., the warden and guards...
...both parties converged and became bloody. A dead nightwatchman surrounded by cartridge shells bore evidence that the second band had passed through Chetopa, Kans. after leaving Pleasanton. When the Wood car was swapped for another next day at Siloam Springs, Ark., a gunfight with peace officers took place. One convict group marched into the Bank of Chelsea (Okla.), ran out with $2,500 in cash under a barrage from officers and townsfolk. One of the convicts, Lewis Bechtel, was captured while eating at a farm house near Dripping Springs, Okla. Another, Frank Sawyer, was captured two days later at Chickasha...