CRIME: Lansing Break

Two prisoners escaped from the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City last week. Two others broke away from the Oklahoma Penitentiary at McAlester, were soon caught. And the jailbreak of the year occurred at Lansing, Kans.

On Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There...

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