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...retelling the story in Last of the Bad Men. The gallows was an indoor affair, with a trap worked by a waterpower gadget. Tom had already made one escape from his cell, and was known to have rich and imaginative friends who might try to engineer another getaway. So the sheriff, taking no chances, held the hanging one day in November 1903 in a corridor of the Laramie County jail. Militiamen were posted outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited...
...Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...
Self-Portrait. In Paris, an American learned that two Frenchmen had tried to steal his getaway car while he held up a restaurant, exclaimed indignantly: "The crooks...
Tithed & Tethered. In Chicago, three safecrackers bound and gagged Watch man Paul Elston, stole several hundred dollars from the laundry that he was guarding, made a getaway after leaving...
...East. She was at her husband's side in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked, lost everything but the sweater and slacks she was wearing when they bombed Manila and burned her home to the ground. On New Year's Eve she made a last-minute getaway to Bataan-caught a little island freighter at midnight as the Manila docks went up in flames...