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...week Comrade Litvinov agreed to free the two engineers if His Majesty were "advised" (i. e. ordered by the British Cabinet) to revoke the order in council. In Moscow the engineer-prisoners knew nothing of this dickering. Suddenly their cell door clanged open. "Pack your kits!" barked the Soviet warden. Nervously, not knowing whether they might be going to Siberia or worse, the two Englishmen packed. "Now come this way. March!" Engineers Thornton and MacDonald marched down a series of corridors and out into an open courtyard-just the place for a firing squad. With a paper in his hand...
...convict who pinioned Warden Prather was Wilbur Underhill, "The Tri-State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they...
...soon as another car could be seized, Bailey, Underhill, the warden, two captured guards and four convicts split away from the rest, a group of five who went their way in the second car. Both groups headed south for the Oklahoma badlands...
...convicts with the warden changed cars frequently as they fled. One of the cars they commandeered was occupied by a tipsy driver. He did not seem to mind their taking his car and bottle, but swore that "no damned Irishman can take my hat away from me." A convict named Brady returned the hat. After that there was no further threat to kill the prison officials. "The liquor warmed them up," explained Warden Prather, who not long ago had allowed Underhill to take up a collection for an operation on his sick mother. Near Welch. Okla., the warden and guards...
Back at Lansing, Governor Landon announced six-month "good time" allowances for 1,850 convicts who did not take advantage of the break. The State Prison Board exonerated Warden Prather and his staff of all blame. "The six men who planned the break were lifers, killers and desperadoes," the board found, ". . . desperately willing to gamble for freedom...