CRIME: On Auburn's Anniversary

A grey little old Kansas farmer hobbled out on his porch one day last week to greet three men who were coming up to his house with guns in their hands. "Morning, boys," he said. "Going hunting?"

"We're being hunted," one of the men replied. "We're going to stay here for a while."

That was the first that Farmer Emerson Salisbury, 73, knew about the jail break that had taken place four hours prior and nine miles away at the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth ("The Bankers Institute"). Six men had escaped, dragging spectacled Warden...

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