CRIME: For a Jury

What is a man without money to do when he must look at his only son lying in bed paralyzed from waist to feet? Quiet, hard-working John Edwin Byers of Chanute, Kans. found his own desperate answer. He put a hunting rifle in his battered Ford sedan, drove off and held up a bank. The $900 paid for sending his 13-year-old son, Albert, to Spears Clinic in Denver.

That was five years ago. His son got no better. John Byers, father of four daughters besides, held up another bank. Then, as time passed,...

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