Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard them coming, crashing through the undergrowth, he lay on the ground and covered himself with leaves. Unerringly, a young bloodhound named Sandy sniffed him out. "James, are you all right?" asked Guard Sammy Joe Chapman. There was a pause. "I'm all right," replied James Earl...
...probably less than five people here who can read a compass, but they know every tree in these woods. So drawled Guard Bill Garrison, 45, last week as he described to TIME Correspondent George Taber how the Tennessee mountain men at Brushy Mountain prison flushed out and captured James Earl Ray in less than 2½% days...
...squirrel huntin' and coon huntin' and ground hog huntin' and rabbit huntin' as long as I can remember." Adds Guard Sammy Joe Chapman, 33, who caught Ray and the last escapee, Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those other escapees. It teaches you the tricks of the mountain, like traveling at night and how to see in the mountains in the dark while going through a rough thicket." As a handler of bloodhounds, Chapman is known to his fellow guards...
...guilty in court on March 10, 1969, Tennessee prosecutors merely declared that they had examined all the evidence compiled by local and state police, the FBI and even international agencies and concluded that "we have no proof other than that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray and James Earl Ray alone, not in concert with anyone else." Ray's attorney at the time, the flamboyant Percy Foreman, said he had grilled Ray for some 50 hours, checked all his expenses "down to 75? for a shave and a haircut," and reluctantly concluded that...
...result, wheat prices have dropped to little more than $2 per bu., v. an average of almost $3 for last year's crop. Growers complain that if prices continue to slip they will not earn enough to cover production costs. Says Earl Hayes, president of the Kansas Wheat Growers Association: "Wheat farmers are in a severely depressed situation." Net farm income has already fallen from an alltime high of $33 billion in 1973 to $22 billion last year, and has continued to decline so far in 1977. Much of the rise in food prices in recent years, says Hayes...