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...Convict Frank Seibert, who had just begun a 15-year sentence, and Convict Joseph Stoddard, who had two years of a three-year term to serve, headed North and were lost...
...Convict James McGrath and Convict John Weirman sped across the Delaware River bridge toward Morrisville, Pa. Near Oxford Valley, Pa., they wrecked their machine, fled into a cornfield. Two airplanes went aloft and began to circle the cornfield looking for the hiding convicts. The afternoon waned...
...Mere failure to file an income tax does not constitute 'attempt' to evade or defeat the tax. ... To convict you must find beyond reasonable doubt that there was intent to defraud and also some act done in furtherance of that intent...
...armed convicts looked at him in awe. He seemed big enough to subdue them all. They dropped their weapons, turned away, slowly moved back to their cells. One convict was dead, two guards, a deputy warden and two convicts injured. Two of the convicts, life termers, faced death if convicted of attacking a guard. The riot had lasted an hour and a half. Giant Warden Davis wiped his brow, strolled back to his office...
...reported at 150, then at 400, later at 700. When the known toll reached 1,000 (Belize had 13,000 inhabitants), the authorities stopped counting, looked for corpses no longer. It would have been impossible to bury them before they started spreading disease. Bodies already found were dumped into convict-dug trenches. The rest were thrown on pyres made of badly demolished buildings, including the Jesuit college where many unidentified victims must have been killed...