CRIME: Sing Sing Break

Convict McGovern Miller, abed in Sing Sing prison hospital, woke one murky morning this week to a nightmare sight. Out of their beds leaped three fellow felons, fully clothed and armed with guns. Quick as murder they shot and killed the guard in the hospital ward, vanished through the door. That was the last Convict Miller saw of them.

Outside the ward, the fugitives jumped a second guard and a trusty, hustled them, into a sub-basement and locked them up. Through a tunnel used for steam pipes and electric cables they fled, unlocking...

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