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Initially, Brushy Mountain Warden Stonney Lane suspected that some of the prison's employees had helped Ray break out. But by last week he too had changed his mind. He felt that none of his men had aided Ray and the others, although he believed some of the prison personnel might have been careless. Last Thursday Guard Floyd Hooks, 38, was dismissed for "negligence on duty"; he had been in the manned watchtower nearest the point of the escape. Said Lane, "This was a traditional break, and they ran just like other prisoners...
There are not three Jarndyces left upon the. earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court...
...does think that Ray got help in fleeing is Warden Stonney Lane of Brushy Mountain prison, who told TIME that he thought the break had been assisted by some authority within the institution. Said he: "They would have had to be helped." Whoever organized the plot shrewdly waited until Lane was far away in Corpus Christi, Texas, taking his first vacation in five years. Lane said Ray was the first man over the wall. "What I want to know is: Why wasn't he shot at? They shot the last one." And Lane was convinced that Ray and the others...
Conspiracy theories have also been advanced by Attorney Mark Lane, who has earned a lucrative living over the past 13½ years by exploiting all the uncertainties over both the J.F.K. and the King assassinations. In May he published a book, Code Name: "Zorro," with Comedian Dick Gregory, another assassination buff, which portrays Ray as the fall guy for the real assassins, who of course are not remotely identified...
...indefatigable Lane has been largely responsible for convincing influential blacks that the King case needs official restudy. He persuaded King's widow Coretta that there was unspecified new evidence warranting an investigation. Her support influenced the Congressional Black Caucus to push creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Incredibly, when that committee was first set up, it offered the job of chief counsel to the totally biased Lane. Even he realized his acceptance would destroy the investigation's credibility, and the job was offered to Richard Sprague. The highly independent Sprague sought an unreasonably large budget, fought...