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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...
...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...
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