STATES 6? CITIES: Fugitive

A film currently horrifying U. S. audiences is I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, taken from a successful autobiography of almost like title* written by Robert Elliott Burns. Last week the fugitive was a fugitive no longer. Author Burns was apprehended in Newark. He had been running a toy shop in East Orange. His arrest aroused national interest, stirred up two issues: a general one on the question of crime & punishment, a specific legal one between Georgia and New Jersey.

Prisoner Burns was born...

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