It was one of the most secretive, security-shrouded prisoner transfers ever planned in the U.S. Less than 24 hours after Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan had denied her final petition, thus ending a ten-week fight against extradition to California, the prisoner was awakened shortly before 3 a.m. Escorted from the Women's House of Detention in Manhattan, she was hustled into a prison van, one of a procession of at least ten vehicles. Soon after it was under way, the caravan suddenly split up in several directions to foil any pursuers, one decoy car heading toward each of the...
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