It was 6:00 a.m. and Justice of the Peace Harvey was out sweeping the sidewalk in front of his office. Naturally he noticed when a car roared up and stopped just across the street at the post office. The post office belongs to Nell Tingley. She rents it for $11.75 a month to the Government and lives in the two rooms over it. A nice woman, from Virginia, but everyone knew her husband was Roy ("Pete") Traxler, one of the convicts who escaped from a Texas prison farm on July 8, who...
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