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...Loftin, who at 25 faced life plus 52 additional years for murder, robbery and kidnapping. Their guards were tough, some of them trusties-Arkansas law permits trusties to be armed as guards. There was a new one -Claude Martin, who murdered his wife last year-sitting down, holding his shotgun. He had been made a prison guard only the week before...
Guard Troy Wade dozed in the shade of a tree, his shotgun beside him. Near by, Convict Frank Conley waited, watched, his hand on a knife hidden in his clothes. Far down at the end of the line he saw two convict guards saunter up to the driver of the prison water wagon-an Indian, in for rape-and train their guns on him. At the opposite end of the line two convict guards armed with shotguns quietly moved up on the regular prison guards. It was just...
...behind him was more resourceful and ruthless than the mass of sullen, stupefied convicts. He jumped Guard Wade, slashed with his knife, wounded him. The new guard, Claude Martin, still sitting down, raised his gun. He never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone body. Martin rolled over, dead. Conley looked around, saw another guard drawing a bead...
Frank Conley did not surrender. Twenty-four hours after his leap on Troy Wade he was found in a pit on the Ouachita River levee, still holding his shotgun, 50 yards from the spot where the posseman had been killed. A bullet through the throat had ended his flight...
...average in the National League. Because he recently joined the select circle of pitchers who have won 200 games, Dodger rooters last week presented Hero Fitzsimmons with a $1,700 sedan (bought with a barrelful of nickels and dimes), enough luggage for a round-the-world cruise, a radio, shotgun, suit of clothes and a watch whose dial spells F.Fitzsimmons. Only other active major-leaguers who have won 200 games or more: Carl Hubbell of the Giants, Ted Lyons of the White Sox, Lefty Grove of the Red Sox, Red Ruffing of the Yankees...