Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Garrison went back to prison to get two bloodhounds. At 11 p.m. he and some others captured Hill, Ray's baby-faced cellmate, by a burned-out cabin. The dogs then led the guards to the New River, where Ray had hoped to lose his pursuers. For a time, he succeeded, running upstream for about 600 yds. Looking for the trail, Sammy Joe Chapman and Johnny Newburg headed upriver with two fresh dogs: Sandy and Little Red, a pair of 14-month-old females. The hounds quickly picked up Ray's trail. In a fury, they took...
...helmet. The desperate Ray headed uphill, past a gravel road used for hauling coal. Chapman could hear him crashing through the bush. For a man who had been on the run for more than two days, Ray showed remarkable endurance. All the hours he had spent in the prison yard playing volleyball to develop his legs and lungs were paying off-for a while...
Finally it becomes instinct. There are 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...
...ultimate weapon of any hunt in the wilderness is, of course, the bloodhound. Sammy Joe Chapman, chief supervisor of the Brushy Mountain prison kennels, had only two fully trained hounds available for the forest searches: Sandy and Little Red. The other nine were still in training. Consequently the FBI brought in its own pack of bloodhounds. But when the feds gave their dogs some convicts' garments to sniff, just like they do in the movies, the locals scoffed. "Pure Hollywood," said one. Chapman put his dogs in pursuit by taking them to a single fresh track that gave them...
...order to buy or sell soybeans or other commodities but, instead of making the transaction on the open market, the trader arranges a private rigged deal that can bring him an illegal profit. If proved guilty, Groover, the alleged ringleader, could face up to 128 years in prison and a fine of more than $4 million. Three other soybean traders-Sam H. LaMantia, Ralph J. Hemminger and Leo Sussman-were indicted for violating federal commodity exchange regulations. Federal investigators say LaMantia set up fake sales in order to accumulate supposed losses that he used to reduce his income tax bills...