Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...four miles into the woods, the leaders riding horseback. In a thicket they stopped, conferred on the direction of flight, took the convicts' tobacco, turned them loose. Conley with five others headed south. Loftin moved west. Through the afternoon 104 convicts and guards straggled back to the prison...
...bushes beside the road. Five climbed into the back seat of the car, and one took the wheel. A philosophical New Dealer and onetime college president, Mr. Horsfall did not turn a hair at the appearance of armed men on the Arkansas landscape. He quizzed his captors about prison conditions, learned that they believed they were abused, since they said the trusties used bull whips on them. They admitted that they had killed a guard. Mr. Horsfall remarked: "They treated us like relatives...
Wary of Argentine red tape, fearing dearth of transportation to Germany might keep him in prison until war's end, Nazi Arnold appealed the extradition order Uruguay had granted, gained a 20-day reprieve. Last week, with a new passport obligingly issued by the German Legation in Montevideo, he thwarted Argentina again. Uruguayan police relented, granted him permission to sail for Rio de Janeiro, where he could catch a LATI plane for Italy. Steaming north aboard the Japanese Hawaii Maru, he had one more hurdle ahead: Brazil had not authorized his landing at Rio, so he would be forced...
Jimmy was shut up in a dark, airless cell in the prison's cellar, with a ceiling so low that he could not stand upright. They showed his wife the cell later. They kept him drugged, presumably to make him talk: she counted 36 hypodermic punctures on his body...