CRIME: Like a P-38

For years Robber John Giles (37, 5 ft. 11, 160 lbs., dark complexion, brown hair, tough-looking) and Robber Edgar Cook (31, 5 ft. 4, 154 lbs., light complexion, hazel eyes, talks incessantly) were just dull names on Midwest police circulars. But in the tarnished democracy of crime a man can always emerge from mediocrity by that feat of supermechanics, a successful prison break.

Last week Giles and Cook had improved their social standing. They not only took it on the Arthur Duffy* from the Council Bluffs, Iowa, "escape-proof" jail, but they called the play first, like Babe Ruth pointing...

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