After Bank Robbers Joseph Nolen, his brother Ballard and Elmer Schuer broke out of Lewisburg, Pa.'s federal penitentiary, they stole four cars, ran through and around Pennsylvania police roadblocks, stabbed, kidnaped, looted and finally, in a Philadelphia suburb, held a family captive for 19 hours (TIME, Sept. 22). Then they headed for Scranton, took a wrong turn, came to New York instead. When they ran short of cash, they staged a three-minute raid on a Bronx bank, got $12,680. Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear gas, a tommy...
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