Tag: Escape
Mug Shot Monday! Arthur Leroy Antoine, 1928, &
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IN THE 1920s, Arthur Leroy Antoine was an auto-mechanic with a wife and two children. For twelve years, he moved his family from town to town, getting one job after another, always looking for something better and never satisified with what he had. In 1928, he was living in Oakland when he applied that […]
Posted: March 4th, 2019 under Mug Shot Monday, New Books.
Tags: 1920s, California, Escape, Murder, Wife Killer
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Mug Shot Monday! Joe Crowe, 1938
Joe Crowe’s Prison Mug Shot Oklahoma State Penitentiary convict Joe Crowe is a great example of the laxness with which prisons once guarded their inmates. In 1938, Crowe was a prison trustee on a dam project near Fort Towson, Oklahoma, where state convicts provided a large portion of the labor force. That November, Crowe left […]
Posted: March 30th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1930s, Escape, Oklahoma
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Mug Shot Monday! George Edward Cole, 1957
George Edward Cole George Edward Cole shot and killed a San Francisco Police Sergeant during a hold-up of a tavern on Dec. 30, 1956. He was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted List on Feb. 25, 1957. He was captured two years later in Des Moines, Iowa after a citizen identified his girlfriend, Yvonne Conley, […]
Posted: October 13th, 2014 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1950s, California, cop killer, Escape, FBI Most Wanted
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Mug Shot Monday! William Hutton Coble, 1964
William Hutton Coble was an escaped fugitive who got into a running gun battle with police after robbing a bank in Charlotte, North Carolina. While fleeing police, he dropped the stolen loot, shot a woman in the leg to steal her car, then turned down a dead end street where he surrendered after a shoot-out […]
Posted: August 11th, 2014 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1960s, Escape, FBI Most Wanted
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