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high wall. But his fast working mind
took in all the opportunities.
Prison Break

He was working in the brickyard
with a gang of 20 prisoners, wheeling
barrow loads of bricks from the kiln
and stacking them in the yard. He
noticed that every time he passed the
boiler room chimney stack it obscured
him from the tower guards vision.
Obscured him, it is true, for only a
second or two—but that was enough.
He let three others in on his plan,
and on every trip—when they were
screened by the chimney—the barrows
were dropped and a few shovelfuls of
earth were hastily dug from under the
brickyard’s high board fence. When
the hole was big enough, Miner and
his three pals scrambled through.
Then they were faced with the wall.
Breaking the lock of a toolshed, they
found a long ladder. In no time they
were dropping one by one from the
wall into the brush below. Although
the alarm was given within six min-
utes of the escape, and a posse of
police and prison guards aided by
bloodhounds combed the countryside
for days, they found no trace of
Miner. His companions were both
caught in an hour or so, but the little
old Westerner was too foxy. He got
clean away.

Would it be time for Miner to re-
tire now?

In June, 1909, a little grey haired
man called George Anderson, with a
weatherbeaten face and penetrating
blue eyes, got an electrical main-
tenance job in a small town sawmill
in Pennsylvania. Good at his work,
he was there a year before he con-
fided to a fellow worker named
Hunter, that he was Bill Miner. And,
like the Bill Miner of old, he had a
plan. A money-making plan involving
a little risk and no work. He would
cut Hunter in.

Miner and Hunter quit their jobs
and started working their way down
to Georgia. In Virginia a man called
Hanford took a liking to the plan
and joined them.

Another First

They eventually turned up in Lula,
Georgia, and got work in a sawmill.
And on February 18, 1910, a Southern
Railroad train was held up by three
masked bandits at White Sulphur,
Georgia. The express car was looted
of $60,000. Sheriffs and deputies
scoured the countryside, squads of
railroad police were rushed to the
scene. A day or two after the robbery
a group of sheriff's deputies searching
at Gainesville, got suspicions of the
actions of 68-year-old George Ander-
son. The old fellow protested that he
knew nothing whatever about the
train robbery, but the grim faced
group of armed men decided that the

old fellow better return with them to
White Sulphur, just in case. And at
White Sulphur, a Pinkerton man in q_
crowd of police officers recognized —

him. Miner stoutly denied his -
identity, but again the tell tale
dancing girl on his right wrist

clinched the argument. A day or 50

later Hunter and Hanford were
caught. And they confessed. The

judge had the last word; he said 20
years to Miner, the little man who
had not only pulled off the first train
robbery in Canada, but had notched
up another first—the first train rob-
bery in Georgia!

Now surely at 68 it’s time to retire,
or at least at that age a twenty-year
prison sentence should write finis to
any man’s career. But then you see
Bill Miner was different.

Escaped Again—This Time for Good

He was sent to the Georgia State
Prison at Milledgeville, and for eight
months he was a model prisoner; then
on October 18, 1910, he saw a chance
and took it. He slugged a guard and
escaped.

Again the countryside echoed and
re-echoed to the baying of hounds, as
searching police, deputies and guards
beat every thicket, bush and outhouse.
But despite the widest search Bill
Miner was never caught.

To this day no one knows the
ultimate fate of the little grizzled
Kentuckian whose cold nerve and
icy resolve made him the dean of
road agents in the passing of the old

West. >

Cooking Hints

YOU'D NEVER EXPECT to get a
first-class chef in prison! But the chef
steward of North Carolina’s State
Prison has just finished a booklet of
household hints for other prison chefs.

Chef A. E. Cole says: “I hope
women will find my culinary tips a
big help, too. I’ve had plenty of time
to study different ways to make life a
little more easy and simple in the
kitchen. It’s almost unbelievable how
a little hint can gladden your work.”

Cole recommends that onions,
turnips and carrots should never be
split lengthwise, but sliced in rings.

“When you cut across the fibre, they
cook much quicker and are much
more tender,” he adds.

And here are some more helpful
hints from the prison chef:

Add half a chopped apple to season
vegetable soup. ;

Clean soiled water glasses by boil-
ing them in water with a few tea-
spoonfuls of vinegar.

And if you want to get the most
out of lemons and limes, simply boil
them thoroughly before squeezing.

THE SHOULDER STRAP