Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Winthrop L. Biddle, 74, penniless scion of the fabulous, prosperous, numerous Philadelphia Biddles; in an auto accident; in Haddon Township, N.J. Rejecting the family fortune, Biddle chose a drifter's life. He was killed by a hit-run driver while pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings down a country road...
EDGAR SMITH. No American has endured death row longer (13 years, 7 months) than Edgar Smith-and few inmates have achieved greater self-rehabilitation. In 1957 he was a high school dropout of 23, an ex-Marine and jobless drifter. That summer he was charged with killing an acquaintance, a Ramsey, N.J., schoolgirl whose body was found in a deserted sand pit, her skull crushed by a 14-lb. boulder. Though Smith vehemently denied guilt, he was convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die in the electric chair at Trenton State Penitentiary. Instead of vegetating in his cell, Smith...