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Volume III” Number IV

CASTLE ON THE CUMBERLAND

October 159 1963

 

The Honorable BERT T. COMES, Governor

'WILSON W. WYATT, Lto Governor

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

 

JOSEPH G. CANNON, Commissioner
MARSHALL SWAIN, Deputy Commissioner
Dr» HAROLD BLACK, Director of Institutions

Wo Z. CARTER, Director of Education

BOARD OF PARDONS & PAROLES

 

Dro FRED MOFFATTg Executive Director
WALTER FERGUSON? Chairman
SDJIEON WILLIS; Member

ERNEST THOMPSON9 Member

PENITENTIARY ADMINISTRATION

 

LUTHER THOMASQ warden

LLOYD ARMSTRONG; Deputy Warden

We To BAXTERS Captain of the Guard

Reva HOUSTON E0 INMAN9 Protestant Chaplain
Revo THOMAS CLARK:9 Catholic Chaplain
HENRY Ea (DWAN, Supervisor of Education

WILLIAM EGBERT9 Vocational Instructor

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Castle News

Editorial

WORK RELEASE

A Rehabiliation
Program that Works

A NIGHT IN CAPTIVITY

A radio announcer finds
himself the subject of news
Exchange Page

Tall Tales

Department Reports

THE EXs
A cartoon feature

Crossword
Statistics & Movies

The Castle Laughs

 

CASTLE STAFF

Lawrence Snow, Editor

Harold Arnold, Associate Editor

Jim McKinney, Art Editor

John Busby, Multilith Operator

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Opinions expressed in this magazine

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KENTUCKY GOES TO OHIO TO FIND QUALIFIED MAN TO FILL LONG~VACANT COMMISSIONERlS POST

JOSEPH Go CANNON' OF OHIO PENAL SYSTEM
NAMED KY0 COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS

What was termed by Governor Bert Combs

as a "long‘9 long search" to find a
qualified man for the vacant post of
Commissioner of Corrections culminated

last month in the appointment of Joseph
Go Cannon of Ohio to Kentucky“s top
penal sloto

The LOUISVILLE TIMES said the appoint-
ment of Cannon is considered the first
"nonpolitical" selection for the job.
Cannon will be the "first professionally
trained career man ever to hold tthe
jobs" the newspaper statedo

The new Commissioner of Correctionsg‘who
will have charge of all State prisons
in addition to the parole and
probation divisions was Assistant Comm
missioner of the Ohio Department of
Corrections when Governor Combs ape
pointed him Noo 1 man in Kentuckya He
holds a masterls degree (Ohio State
-University) in social work with a
specialization in correctional adminis»
tration9 and he has had lb years of
penal experience in Ohiols prison
systemo

Cannon will assume his new duties here
this montho Marshall Swain29 who has
been filling in as Acting Commissioner
following the resignation seven months
ago of Carlos Oakleys former Commission=
cry will resume his original position of
Deputy Commissionero

Now 38 years olds Cannon is married and
the father of seven childreno Following
his graduation from Holy Rosary High
School in his home towns Columbus» China

he served three years in the wartime
navyo In l9h6s he matriculated atthio
States where an earlier interest in

police administration was channeled into
specialization in correctional studieso
In 19h99 he took a job as a caseworker
in the Ohio Penitentiary and worked tow
ward his master of arts degree in his
spare timeo

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LOUISVIIJB TIMES writer Dick Bergerg who
interviewed the' new Commissioner at
Columbus, describes him as a large man
(210 pounds) with thinnings crewcut red
hair who played varsity basketball and
football at Ohio Statee He is married
to the former Mary Elizabeth Scallan of
Columbuso Mrso Cannon was a registered
nurse,

The paper quoted Commissioner Cannon as
saying he will make no immediate drastic
changes, and that changes will be made
"in an orderly fashiono"

It said Cannon*s philosoPhy of penology
consists of "giving a man an insight in»
to his own problems and giving him some
skills to cope with life on the outside“
as a long-range adjunct to the more
immediate reSponsibility of holding the
offender in a humane manner for the
duration of his sentenoeo

Mo R0 Millsg Chairman of the Governorls
Task Force on Corrections and a member
of the new Corrections Commissions was
instrumental in selecting Cannon for the
$159000~amyear positiono Cannon was
listed as qualified by several national
organizationsa including the National
Council on Crime and Delinquencyo It
was this body whose report on Kentuckyls
outmoded penal system shocked the state
earlier this years

Governor Combs had earlier promised to
find a professionally trained man to
fill the top spot in the Department of
Corrections as part of his program of
prison reform.

KSP DEPUTY WARDEN NAMED ASSOCO CHAIRMAN

Lloyd Armstrongs Deputy‘Warden of this
institutions was recently appointed
Chairman of the Central States Deputy
wardens Association. The appointment is
for the l965-6h fiscal yearn

Eighteen states are represented by'the
Associations

 

 PRISONVS INTERIOR FIIMED FOR AREA TV:
BOB SWISHER SPEAKS TO INMATES AT CHAPEL

 

Two area TV personalities who have de-
veloped an interest in penal affairs
visited the prison last montho The two
were Bob Swisher, Production Manager for
WPSDaTVs and Gene Comptons News Director
of the Paducah broadcasting station.
Compton came armed with a movie camera.

While Swisher held the attention of a
large group of inmates gathered in the
KSP chapel to hear hims Compton mounted
the stairs of the projection booth to
film the scene for airing on a regular
WPSD newscasto During the talks Compton
mes presented with a certificate of
acheivement for his work in publicizing
the problems of the 80~year=old instituw
tiono An inmate group made the presen-
tationo

The two broadcasters also showed a brief
film feature showing the operation of
the Paducah TV stationo Following ‘the
talks Deputy warden Lloyd Armstrong
escorted the pair through the prisons
where more footage was shoto

The films were shown on the midamorning
newscast the following dayo

HAVE FAITH IN LIFES SENANDR GARRETT
URGES PREQREIEASE STUDENTS IN ASSEMBLX

 

Faith in life and faith in our fellow
souls we these,9 said Senator Tom Garrett
in his address last month to the pres

release classs are impossible to live
withouto
The Paducah Democrats in the State

Senate since l96l9 remarked to the group
of inmates that all individualss regards
less of their circumstances9 have ohm
stacles to hurdleo Buts he addeds none
is insurmountableo

He urged the men to consider their
present position as "a fleeting things“
and to work toward a "faith fit to live
by» a self fit to live witho"

The SenatorVS address was attended by
interested inmates as well as by the men

assigned to the new preurelease class as
a prerequisite to leaving the instituu
tiono

.A. native son of Paducahs senator Garrett
is a graduate of the University of
Kentucky's School of Lawo

MICHIGAN STRIVES T0 ELIMINATE "IDLE"

Prisoners sentenced to solitary confine=
ment in Michigan institutions once were
fed only bread and water, and sentences
to "the hole“ were unlimiteds says
WEEKLY PROGRESS, the newspaper of the
branch prison at Marquetteo

Then, about five years agos a maximum
limit of 15 days was placed on this type
of punishment, and one meal a day was
fed to convicts in punishment 061180

But today,- .under a directive issued by
Michigan's Director of Corrections Gus
Harrisbn, no, prisoner may'be confined
longer than' five. days without his eXm
press consents and the absolute tOp
limit is ten dayso Moreover, two meals
a day are now fed in solitary; where
prisoners sleep on boards and are given
a blanket for warmtho

A further requirement is that men in
solitary be examined daily by a member
of the medical staffo

Harrison said that since the new policy
was adopted» not a single sentence in
excess of five days has been imposed in
Michigan prisons° Most sentences con=
sist of two or three days9 he statedo
Yet the number of disciplinary problems
has not increased under the more lenient

policyo On the contraryg said Harrisona
there have been fewer violations of
prison rules than at any time in his
memoryo

"Except for very serious or repeated

offensess the temporary loss of privi=
leges often can serve as sufficient
punishments" He condemned solitary cona

finement as "cruel and barbaric" and
stated that "some day we hope to replace
solitary confinement completelyo"

 

  

 

-breaker and lawabider alike
. when the press is free to live up to its

MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEYS AND NEWSMEN ARE WELL ON WAY TOWARD ADOPTING NEWS CODE

 

EDIIDRUS NOTE: In any free society,
there are instances in which the free—
dome of individuals and the freedoms of
groups conflict in such a way that only
an allmbut-indiscernible line separates
right and wrongo

In theory at least, persons accused of
crime in EnglishmsPeaking countries en-
joy considerable protection of their
right to a fair and impartial trialo In

practices as we all know, these rights
are sometimes abridged or infringed
Upono Andy in some cases, the fault

seems to lie with the press -- or at
least with the more sensational segments
of the presso Occasionally the in-
fringement takes the form of news cover—
age that is heavily biased against the
defendant or that makes public facts
that the court itself is bound not to
revealo Such practices very clearly
make a mockery of the rights guaranteed
to accused persons by the U0 So Constim
tutiono
On the

other hands everyone as law»

webmmffis

responsibility to inform the public of
all the names without bias or restrainto
Protective legislation carries with it
the danger of setting precedents that
could eventually do away with this very
important freedomo

In Massachusettsg a groUp of attorneys
and journalists we the Massachusetts
BarmPress Committee =~ has published a
guide for lawyers and nemsmen in an at=
tempt to insure the accused the consti=
tutional right to unbiased trial while
leaving the freedom of the press intacto
According to the MENTOR (Masso Prison
publication)s this code has already been
approved by a majority of the ‘Massachum
setts Bar Associations and the Massachu=
setts presso Provisions of the codes as
reported by the MENMDRQ follows

MASSACHUSETTS BARmPRESS CODEg

A key to the
permissive

h

Committee's guide is the
printing of evidence or

been
of the

statements only after they have
made a part of the court records
trialo ‘

NEWSPAPERS are urged to refrain from:

1. Publication of the criminal record
... of the accused or discreditable acts
of the accused after an indictment is
returned or during the trial unless made

part of the evidence in the court
record.
2. Publication of interviews with

subpoenaed witnesses after an indictment
is returned.

5. Publication of testimony stricken by
the court unless reported as having been
stricken.

he Publication of names of juveniles
involved in juvenile proceedings unless
the names are released by the judges

50 Publication of "leaks," statements
or conclusions as to the innocence or
guilt of the defendant, implied or exa
pressed, by the polices prosecuting
authorities or defense counselo

THE BAR is urged to refrain from:

10 Statements or conclusions as to the
innocence or guilt of the defendants
implied or expresseds by the authorities
or defense counselo

2° Outaofucourt statements by'prosecue
tors or defense attorneys to news medias
in advance of or during a trials stating
what they expect to proves whom they
propose to call as witnessesa or public
criticism of either judge or juryo

3° Issuance by the prosecuting authorie
tiess counsel for the defense9 or any
persons having official connection with
the case, of any statements relative to
the conduct of the accuseds statements,9
"confessions," or admissions made by the
accused, or other matters bearing on the
issue to be tried;

 

 be Any other statement or press release
to the news media in which the source of
the statement remains undisclosed.

Members of the BarmPress Committee in~
eluded a former president of the Boston
Bar Associations newspaper' representae
tivesg and representatives from the
electronic press and the judiciary.

HAPPINESS POSSIBLE IN KSP9 HUBBARD SAYS

 

 

 

CASTLE WILL BE PASSED OUT IN CELLS

 

Because of the limitations of the Multi-
lith plates used by the CASTLEa only a
relatively small number of copies can be
printed each montho Our mailing list is
expanding constantly; if slowlys and we

usually have only 200~250 copies to pass.

out in the institutiono

In the pasta we have been distributing
the inmate copies of the CASTLE to the
shops and those departments that we
could reach without leaving the come
poundo As a results men working on the
farms and otter inaccessible places have
not been getting a chance to read the
magazim o

For these reasonss we are going to try
placing as many copies as possible in
each cellhouses beginning with this

 

 

issueo 'We will no longer distribute
copies in the shopso This means that
the first cells on each walk will re»

oeive copieso If all the men will be
good enough to pass copies on to the
next cells when they have finished with
them” everyone who wants a chance to
read the magaoioe will get ito

we will also place a few extra copies in
the libraryt But; except for the necesw

sary working and file oopiess we will
not have any extra copies in the CASTLE

 

officeo

We appreciate your cooperationo

 

 

Subscribe now to the CASTEE ON THE
CUMBERIANDO A yearVS subscription is
only a dollarg and anyone may subscribeo
Address: CASTLE ON THE CUMBERLANDg Box
128,g Is'lddyrvr‘ille9 Kentuckyo

A youthful attorney from Madisonville
told KSP inmates last month that "the
happiest people in the world" could
possibly be ”right here in this chapel
todayo ll

Carroll Hubbard, Jro, a prominent lawyer
and churchman who is also active in
politics, told members of the pram
release class and other inmates gathered
in the chapel to hear him that the peace
of mind and dedication of a Christian
life are possible anywheres and that
these things can bring more real happiw
ness than money, fame or popularityo

AN ANTIDOTE FOR COMMUNIST POImN

The personable young attorney Spoke of
Leninvs "master plan" to win the worldg
noting that Communism has managed to
capture much of the world without world
war because it is engaged in a struggle
for the minds of mono While the United
States Government is fighting night and
day to combat the Communist menace‘9 how=
ever‘9 the people of the U3 So are di=
vided against themselves» he saido

"The issue has finally become one of
Christian principles against Communist
ideologyg" he went on, and a "resurgence
of national will and loyalty" is needed
to overcome Communisms The resurgenoes
he commenteds must "start with you and
mac"

Hubbard” whose offices are in MayfieldVS
Park Buildings was born in Murray”
Kentuckyo Following studies at Georgee
town College9 he attended the University
of Louisville School of Law.9 where he
took his legal degreeo After a stint in
the Air Forces he went into private
practice and became active in political
and church work, eventually becoming the
youngest delegate Kentucky has eVer sent
to a national convention am the 1960
Democratic Convention in Los Angeleso

 

 

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ST. PAUL‘S PASTOR IS CATIELIC CHAPLAIN

 

Reverend Thomas Clark, a native of

Leitchfield, Kentucky, and a former
Owensboro resident, is KSP's new Catho-
lic Chaplain. He will also serve as

Pastor of St. Paul's Church in Prince-
ton, Kentucky.

Before moving to Princeton, Father Clark
was Assistant Pastor of St. Stephen's
Cathedral in Owensboro, and Chaplain of
Lady of Mercy Hospital in the same city.
He also had a Negro parish in Owensboro.

Father Clark will officiate weekly here
in the institution at ahsoommass
each Sundayo His congregation includes
some 30 to AD inmates.

Although he has no definite plans at
this time, the Chaplain says he hepes to
be able to conduct other activities for
Catholic inmates in the future.

H. HILLYARD ASSIGNED T0 NBW'BUILDING JOB

 

KSP Officer Harley Hillyard, an experiu
enced construction man, has been trans-

ferred to the construction detail that.

is now busy erecting a new education
building in the northeast corner of the
compound. '

Mr. Hillyard, who was supervisor of the
cabinet shop before becoming security
officer on the new project, has been in
construction work most of his life, both
in and out of the country, and worked as
supervisor of dam and tunnel projects
before going to work as a guard here.
He also owns a construction company in
this area.

Mr. Bridges, formerly supervisor of the
leathershOp, replaced Mr. Hillyard in
the cabinet shop.

VOLUNTEERS WORK ALL NIGHT TO POUR FIOOR

 

The second-level floor was
month on the
under construction here,

convict volunteers it was
job. The
Kim .Williams, 4 Frank Martin,

6

poured last
new educational building
but for eight

an allwnight
eight -- Clarence Underwood,
Maxwell

Oliver, Robert Jordan, David Bolton and
Joe Paulhus, stayed on after the regular
crew quit at 8 PM to finish the poured
concrete.

KENTUCKY BAR ASSOCIATION VOTES TO RETAIN
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND JJURY SENTENCING

The Kentucky Court of Appeals announced
late last month that jury sentencing
would be retained in the state, at least
for the time being. The decision to
leave sentencing power in the hands of
juries, rather than transferring it to
judges as is done in LB other states
came after the Kentucky Bar Association
voted 650-h55 against making the change.

The Association lawyers also voted 656
to h56 in favor of retaining capital
punishment, said the TOUISVILLE TIMES.
ANO THER INMATE PLEDGES EYES TO BANK

waiter Lee Harvey pledged his eyes to
the Lions Eye Bank recently, joining the

near-60 KSP inmates who have already
pledgedo
Pledges may be made at the CASTLE

office. The eyes, which are not taken
until after the death of the donor, are
used to restore sight of blind persons
and for research into eye diseaseso

COACH CLAYTON PREDICTS WINNING SEASON

 

Coach Fred Clayton of Caldwell County
High School in nearby Princeton said
this year‘s football team. should be a
winning club because of the intense dew
sire the boys have to win.

Clayton made the prediction during an
address here early this month. Many KSP
inmates follow the local high school
football games, and his talk attracted a
large crowd to the chapel.

Clayton discussed the organization of
the football program in Caldwell County,
a program that includes little league as
well as high school teams. He said that
rules and discipline are 'rigidly
stressed at his school. His team has a
5~0 win record.

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KENTUCKY NEEDS A HALFWAY HOUSE

 

 

With the single exception of the parole-reform bill, the most progressive and
sensible step toward reform of Kentucky's antiquated penal system has been the new
policy of permitting selected parolees to leave the prison to a sponsor in lieu of
acceptable employment. A Sponsor, of course, is a reputable person who agrees to
provide the parolee with a place to live until he can find work on his own.

Prior to this rulinga all prisoners who had been granted a parole were faced with
the necessity of finding suitable work before leaving the institutions An employer
willing to agree in writing not only to hire the ex-prisoner but to hold the job
open until the release machinery finished grinding had to be foundo Moreovers the
locales the type of workg the hourss and the pay (too much is frowned upon) had to
be acceptable. The entire business had to be conducted by mail.9 on letterheads
with "Kentucky State Penitentiary" printed conspicuously across the top_9 or through
the good offices of a friend or relative. Needless to say, a good many prisoners
either failed completely to find work or were delayed in the prison for months or
yearso The Sponsor ruling eased the situation considerablyo

But the problem is far from solvedo There are at this moment a comparatively large
number of men still in the prison who are technically free. That iss they (have
been granted a parole buta because for one reason or another they have no outside -
contactss they have not been able to find acceptable employment or someone willing
to Sponsor thGMo Many are long overdue, some may have to finish their time out en=
tirelyo For these men mm and for the hundreds who annually leave the institution
at the empiration of their terms” virtually penniless and friendless mm a halfway
house would seem to be the only answero

A halfway house; of course.9 is a place where paroled or released prisoners who have
no friendsg family or resources may go temporarily. The house provides them with!
roomo board.o clothing and every possible assistance toward finding worko Once
they have found workb it continues to provide the same necessities at reasonable
rates until they are financially stable enough for independenceo

Usually a private» nonwprofit institution» the halfway house is a proven successo
Father Clark” the late "Hoodlum Priest" who pioneered the idea in St° Louis» was
successful in 99 per cent of his "cases" we a remarkable record in view of the fact
that probably fewer than 35 per cent of all convicts released without some such
form of help succeed in remaining frees The easing of the very serious financial
prOblem the released prisoner faces, the fact that the prisoner is able to find
decent and fitting employment through personal contact without being forced to
graSP the first opportunity that comes his way, and above all the knowledge that
Someone am not an abstraction called societys not a governmental agencys but
individuals with no ax to grind -- is interested in him, cares what happens to him
“r these are probably the reasons.

Regardless of reasons, however, the halfway house idea works and works better than
anything else yet triedo It would be wonderful if Kentucky had one.

  

 

WORK REIEASE: A REHABILITATION PROGRAM THAT WORK$

 

 

 

 

By Phil Corner, AP Staff Writer

EDITDRVS NOTE: Five years ago, a
jobs outside the walls was instituted

program that allowed convicts to work at paying
in North Carolina.
cent of all the prisoners participating in the program have

To date, only 6.5 per
returned to prison

-a oneatenth of the estimated national recidivism rate. The following report is rew
printed from an AP feature in the PADUCAH SUN DEMOCRAT

 

On the job, Jesse Ennis looks like any
other $50~aaweek service station attend-
ant. He pumps gas, checks oil, cleans
Windshields.

His blue denim company uniform and
westernustyle black boots hide the fact
he is a convict, serving three to five
years for breaking and entering. Ennis,
22, is one of more than 560 prisoners
enrolled in North Carolina's rehabilita—
tion program called work Release. He
holds an outside job during working
hours and Spends his offnduty time in
confinement. His earnings pay his way
through prison, support his wife and
three young children and provide him a
nest egg for use when he is freed.

work Release is the showcase item in a
state prison reform program which, in
less than 10 years, has shifted the em"
phasis from punishment to rehabilitaw
tion. Begun on a statewide basis in
1957, it has attracted national and inan
ternational attention and is being tried
in Maryland and Guatemala. North
Carolina got the idea from a localized
system in Wisconsin.

"As a dollarwarn~cents proposition, it's
a good thing for the taxpayer," the
state prison director, George Randall,
says. "But there's also the humanitari~
an aSpect. When a man supports his
family, it gives him a degree of selfw
reSpect and is helpful in rehabilita-
tion. You can‘t put a dollar value on
giving a man hope and restoring him to
the community with a chance."

Prison reform in North Carolina began in

earnest in the middle 19505 under then-
Gov. Luther H. Hodges, now U. S. Secre-
tary of Commerce. Gov. Terry Skanford
has given it continued impetus.

State policy is predicated on the calcue
lation that it costs £2 times as much to
keep a man behind bars as it does to su-
pervise him on parole or probation.
Work Release smooths the parole process.
It also attempts to eliminate broken
homes, joblessness and lack of money

which so often result in prison re-
peaters.
North Carolina's prison population

dropped from a high of 12,0h6 in Decem-
ber, 1961, to 10,668 as of June,'1963.
This has enabled the State Prisons De=
partment to cut its budget for the 1963»
65 biennium by sli—million. Eleven of
8h.prison units have been closed.

Louis Poole, assistant supervisor of in»
mate employment, says: "We just don't
have enough skilled prisoners to fill
all the job requests."

?risoners have worked in the trades, as
store clerks, auto salesmen, laborers,
and in many other occupations. Salaries
range as high as $lh0 a week. The
average is between $50 and $60. Suc-
cessful alumni include a court reporter
for the state industrial commission and
a mechanic who used his savings to open
a business in eastern North Carolina.
He is now hiring work Release prisoners.

"The prisoner is more like the average
man on the street than most of us are
willing to admit," Randall said.

 

 

 

 

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Lawrence
Slnow

 

he hell on the AP teletype tinkled

three times£9 as it did when a

bulletin was about to come over»
_ _ catching Ed Charles in the act of
11 leaving the KKOK control room for a cup
of coffeeo He glanced through the glass
door of the converted closet that housed
the machineo It had not yet started to
print9 and he went on to the outer
office and poured his coffeeo He got
; back to the control room with. the cup
; just as his record was endingo

He read a commercial while he was cueing
:uP the next records adalibbing around
the more exaggerated language the copy=
writer had written into the epoto When
. he finishedg he talked briefly about the
records reciting an anecdote about the
Singer in the quiets noenonseme tones

that had made the evening Ed Charles
. Show a favorite among Santa Isabel
: adultso Then he lifted his thumb from

the edge of the album and let the ale
ready spinning turntable whirl it into
; Soundg Finally9 he walked out and
Stripped the bulletin from the teletypeo

"A bulle~
= "State law enm
:forcement officers are closing in on a
'; strip of woods near Escondido in what
may be the climax of a two-”day manhunt
for the Slayers of a San Diego police-
man. A farmer reported seeing two armed

i:

‘ H6 rlead it between records.»
:tins he said simplyo

 

 

men entering the woods earlier this
evening. The men matched tl'e descrip==
tions of exuconvicts Paul Lee Everett
and Samuel Hubbards believed .to be the
gunmen who shot down the offmduty offi=
oer when he surprised them in the robe
bery of a San Diego supermarket
Wednesday."

By the time he closed his microphone
switch and turned to his coffeea it was
coldo

n woods miles removed from those

near Escondidos Paul Lee Everett

heard the bulletin on his transis=

tor radioo He felt little relief
at discovering the police were on the
wrong trailo In the two days of his
flight with Sam thbards he had felt no
emotion at all save for the tide of row
morse and fear that washed over him when
he thought of what had happened back
there in San Diegoo

The robbery'had gone smoothly until the
policeman had walked inc Only the
manager and the checkers at the line of
registers had known the store was being
held up. But the policeman, dressed in
civilian clothes, his pistol under his
coat, had read the tension in the em-
ployees and sized up the situation at
once»

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

At that point he had done an incredible
things He had whipped out his pistol
and fired.

Remembering, Paul felt the knot of ten-
sion grow in the pit of his stomach
againo The hand that held the little
radio trembled noticeably. For a moment
he thought he was actually going to be
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The explosion in that glass and chromium
enclosure had been deafeningo Paul had
whirled around,9 realizing in illogical
horror as he did that he had fired an
answering shots He had seen the polices
man jerk9 then raise his gun to fire
agains and he had thrust his own pistol
outs willing the bullet to get there be»
fore flames spurted from the barrel
pointed at himo

More explosions had reverberated through
the stores blending into a sustained
roar that added to the horror of the
nightmareo With a part of his mind that
was somehow still detached and objecw
tiveg Paul had known that Sam was firing
beside him3 that the shocked customers
were staring in openumouthed astonishw
ment at this thing that was happening
before their eyeso He had seen the
policeman crumple to the floors to
twitch and kick his life away on the
smooth tileso He had seen Sam racing
for the door9 and he had followed unm
thinkinglys his legs working on inw
stincto He had almost fallen when his
heel slipped on a spot of the officer“s
bloode

Beside his in the woods» Sam saids "I
wonder who Farmer John saw me if he saw
anybodyo”

The voiee startled Paulo He had not
known his partner was awakeo They had
been lying in the underbrush since day»
break,9 afraid to move during the dayo
He turned to study his companion in the
growing dusk‘9 envying him his habitual
composureo A year older than Paul at
2L9 compactly and powerfully built in
contrast to Pau19s tall ranginessa Sam
was never outwardly disturbeds never en~
thusedo A lifetime Spent in the slums

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of the city and the brutalizing environ-
ment of reform schools and an adult rem
formatory had molded his features into
the half-amused, half-disdainful expres~
sion that had become the trademark of
his type and generationo

"I don't know," Paul reSponded diffi-
dently. "Probably a couple of hunters."

"well, it's a break for us," Sam said,
"Keeps the fuzz busy elsewhereo But,
man, I'd sure like to see their faces
when all those blue uniforms pop out of
the brush!" He chuckled quietlyo

Paul said nothing. The callousness of
his partner disgusted him, and he felt
vaguely disloyal because it dido He had
never felt really close to Sam. He
doubted if anyone did, or couldo Yet
both were loyal to the bond of mutual
trust that had held the partnership to~
gether for more than a yearo Until now,
that had seemed to be enougho He wonr
dered if Sam had given even a passing
thought to the family the radio had said
earlier the policeman hado He wondered
if someWhere inside that tough shell of
Sam”s there was anything left that could
be touched by the enormity of what they
had doneo

He rose and brushed off his clotheso
"It“s dark enough nowa What say we get
moving?"

Sam shrugged and got to his feeto

They had walked an houro A few miles
distant” lights twinkled on the horizona
the lights of Santa Isabels Below thems
cars whizzed past on the highway that
led north to los Angeles9 their heade
lights cutting into the darknesso The
regulars dark bulk of a house showed be”
low the hill on which they stoodo

"If anyone lives down there," Sam said,
indicating the housea "there“ll be
fOOdo"

"Think anyone's home?"

"Who knows? Nb lights on; and it's too

 

 

  

early for everyone to be in bed. Let's

go on down and see."

They moved down the hill, alert for the
sudden barking of a dog or a challenge
from the darkened yard. When they got
closer, they saw there was no car in the
open garage.

"No lights, no dog, no car," Sam said.
"But food there must be. The place
looks like someone's been taking care