1 00:00:05,639 --> 00:00:24,719 Speaker 1: H a wall street line, shackle change, Oh weesome, girdy, 2 00:00:25,879 --> 00:00:32,240 it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's 3 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:39,119 been a tentery juice as the huge stream game, a 4 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,200 wrangle of three. 5 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 2: Come here by me or die inside these walls, inside 6 00:00:53,679 --> 00:01:00,079 the wild and when no girl as I'm. 7 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,079 Speaker 3: Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast one 8 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,560 hundred and forty two years in the making, the complete 9 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:41,400 story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman, and You've 10 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:45,239 heard a lot of stories of the history of Louisiana 11 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,400 State Penitentiary on this show, but the one I'm about 12 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:53,120 to tell you today, I really came across on accident. 13 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:57,200 I was doing some research on historic escapes and I 14 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:01,680 came across one in particular in this may be one 15 00:02:01,719 --> 00:02:05,599 of the wildest escapes, definitely one of the most tragic 16 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,879 in Louisiana State Penitentiary history that did not have to 17 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,479 do with Charlotte Fraser. And so today I'm going to 18 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,960 tell you about an inmate by the name of Wilford Lensley. 19 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,919 And I'm gonna start off by telling you what landed 20 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,919 Wilford into Bloody Angola, and then what led up to 21 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,680 what you're going to hear about within the meat of 22 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,919 this story. So we're going to go back to nineteen 23 00:02:31,159 --> 00:02:34,360 thirty two, July eleventh, actually, and I'm going to reference 24 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:40,680 an article from Shreveport, Louisiana. It's The Times newspaper from 25 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:46,080 that day and it reads headline, jealous man slay's rival 26 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:49,360 in gunfighting. Y'all know how these old articles read. You 27 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,919 just can't beat them. Baton Reage, Louisiana, July eleventh. A 28 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,719 charge of murder was filed late today against Wilford Lensley, 29 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,319 a twenty four year old grocery clerk, in connection with 30 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,919 the fatal shooting of Stanley Couvion, who was twenty one 31 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,080 late Sunday night, in an altercation said to have grown 32 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,639 out of jealousy. Get this over. A sixteen year old girl, 33 00:03:15,319 --> 00:03:19,759 Gilmour Couvion, cousin of the slain youth, was wounded in 34 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,039 the shooting fray, but is reported recovering in the hospital. 35 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,479 The charge against Lensley, who disappeared after the shooting, following 36 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,960 questions of witnesses by District Attorney John fred Odom, his 37 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:38,400 assistant Fred S. LeBlanc, and police help of authorities over 38 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:42,840 a widespread area. Was enlisted in an attempt to locate Lensley, 39 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:47,360 described as a disappointed suitor who shot Stanley Cuvion in 40 00:03:47,479 --> 00:03:50,479 the heart when he found him in an automobile with 41 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:56,120 Miss Alvida Piazza in a business district filling station, and 42 00:03:56,159 --> 00:04:00,599 then wounded Gilmour Cuvion station employee and the cousin of 43 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,800 the girl's escort in the thigh. So they eventually catch 44 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:08,719 Lindsey and he goes to trial, and he ends up 45 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:11,599 taking a plea in which he pleads guilty. He gets 46 00:04:11,639 --> 00:04:16,000 a life sentence inside of bloody Angola in what newspapers 47 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,319 were terming as a jealousy slang. Now at this time, 48 00:04:19,439 --> 00:04:22,920 it was February first of nineteen thirty three when he 49 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:26,560 got that sentence handed down of life, and it's off 50 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,759 to Angola for this young man. And apparently he didn't 51 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:33,560 like prison too much. And it wasn't much longer after 52 00:04:33,639 --> 00:04:37,680 that when in late May of nineteen thirty six, absolute 53 00:04:37,879 --> 00:04:41,439 tragedy happens. And I'm going to reference another article. This 54 00:04:41,519 --> 00:04:45,439 is from the Saint Francisville Democrat. It was published on 55 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,800 May thirtieth of nineteen thirty six. And it's important to 56 00:04:48,959 --> 00:04:52,360 note that a lot of these papers, they weren't daily papers, 57 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,160 they were weekly papers or every three days or whatever. 58 00:04:57,319 --> 00:05:00,360 So this isn't necessarily the date when this went down, 59 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:02,439 but it was a date when it was printed in 60 00:05:02,759 --> 00:05:06,319 that particular paper. And at this point in time, Lendsey 61 00:05:06,399 --> 00:05:10,399 had been in prison for roughly four years. So it 62 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:15,360 reads like this bloody tragedy on Angola. Captain and Miss 63 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:20,079 Nelson Himel were killed by a trustee prisoner at their 64 00:05:20,079 --> 00:05:23,920 home Camp g in Gola State Farm late Wednesday afternoon. 65 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,160 As of this writing, Wilford Lensley, twenty five years old, 66 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:31,759 white convict is being sought as the slayer. There were 67 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,639 no Whie witnesses to the tragedy, but it is thought 68 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,879 from the circumstantial evidence that Miss Himel was stabbed to 69 00:05:37,959 --> 00:05:41,000 death and that Captain Himel was shot to death perhaps 70 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,839 an hour or two later Miss Himel was killed. The 71 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,560 double crime was not discovered until two shots were heard, 72 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,000 these being responsible for the death of Captain Heimel, and 73 00:05:52,079 --> 00:05:56,680 y'all had spelled Himel, but it could be Email, which 74 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,720 is a Cajun last name here, but that's tally spelled 75 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,839 h y Nel, so we're gonna go with Himel fell 76 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:07,920 aside Guidry. Trusty Cook at the Himl residence heard the 77 00:06:07,959 --> 00:06:10,920 shooting and came out to investigate. As he did so, 78 00:06:11,319 --> 00:06:13,680 Alfred held a gun on him and forced him to 79 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,240 go with him to the camp. The two got into 80 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:20,360 Captain Himmel's automobile and drove seven miles across the huge 81 00:06:20,399 --> 00:06:24,160 penitentiary form, going out the back gate, which leads into 82 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,759 Wilkeson County, Mississippi. The automobile became bogged a mud and 83 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:32,879 was abandoned. The convicts became separated, and Guidry made his 84 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:36,120 way back to the camp and furnished the only clue 85 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:40,160 to the trail of the fugitive. Sheriff Wilcox was at 86 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,160 Baton Rouge when news of the tragedy reached town, but 87 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,240 he had left immediately for Angola. In the meantime, Deputy 88 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:52,279 Sheriff ce Daniels summoned a posse and went and y'all that, yes, 89 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,079 this is that time frame in the thirties. They got 90 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:59,360 a posse together becuz they went to Angola to lead 91 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:03,519 assistance in the manhunt. Penitentiary officials were already on the 92 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,519 trail and were soon reinforced by twelve members of the 93 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,720 State Bureau of Criminal Identification. The trail is being followed 94 00:07:10,759 --> 00:07:13,319 closely and it seems that it can only be a 95 00:07:13,319 --> 00:07:18,360 matter of hours until the fugitive is either captured or killed. 96 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,519 Parish Corner was on the scene early and immediately held 97 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:25,399 an inquest. This revealed that Captain Himel had been shot twice, 98 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:27,800 once in the head and once in the body, and 99 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:31,800 that Miss Himel had been killed by stabbing. It was 100 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:34,560 the belief that Miss Himmel was first stabbed and that 101 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,399 Captain Himel was then shot. Miss Himel's body was found 102 00:07:38,439 --> 00:07:41,120 in the bathtub in the bathroom where the doors had 103 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,199 been locked from the outside. Captain Himel was shot with 104 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:47,480 his own rifle. Alfred Lindsay is about twenty five years 105 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:50,319 old and was sent up from East Baton Rouge Parish 106 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,040 for murder about four years ago, receiving a life sentence. 107 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,160 This is the first trouble of this nature to occur 108 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:00,920 on Angola in several months, and I guess that's a 109 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:03,920 flex form and it does not seem to have been 110 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:06,439 a part of an attempted escape, which is at the 111 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,800 bottom of most trouble of this nature. On the prison form. 112 00:08:09,959 --> 00:08:12,800 Several men have been killed on Angola in recent years 113 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,079 when they tried to prevent escapes. However, Miss Himmel was 114 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,720 the first woman to be killed on Angola in about 115 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:23,079 twenty years. Miss Elkert, who was wife of the prison physician, 116 00:08:23,319 --> 00:08:26,639 was killed by a trustee house servant about twenty years ago, 117 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,000 and that's interesting. I may do a story on that. 118 00:08:29,079 --> 00:08:31,800 At some point, Captain and Miss Himmel were held in 119 00:08:31,839 --> 00:08:35,440 the highest esteem by people of West Feliciana Parish and 120 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,159 the personnel at Angola. Captain Himel had been long in 121 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,320 the penitentiary service, first being attached to Hope Form near Generat. 122 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,799 When this plantation was abandoned, he was transferred to Angola. 123 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:50,919 He was out of the service for a while under 124 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,120 the Long administration, and they're talking about Huey Long. But 125 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:58,240 it was found his service was invaluable and he was reinstated, 126 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,600 being assigned to one of the hard prisons on the farm. 127 00:09:01,799 --> 00:09:05,279 Captain and Miss Himel rendered faithful and efficient service to 128 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:10,120 the state and at the same time preserved independence of 129 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,080 thought and action. William Wade's seventeen year old son of 130 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,360 Miss E B. Wade, was shot and instantly killed by 131 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,279 trustee guards. Thursday afternoon, Miss Wade sent her son to 132 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:24,639 get something at a nearby store, telling him to hurry, 133 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,360 and he ran. It is sad that the guards called 134 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,399 upon him to halt. When he failed to do so, 135 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,200 they shot him down. An accidental discharge of a gun 136 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,440 by a member of the posse caused the wounding of 137 00:09:36,519 --> 00:09:39,639 two men. Just how seriously we have been unable to 138 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:43,679 learn A veteran dog sergeant of the penitentiary and a 139 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,399 foreman at Camp A were also shot. Friday morning, as 140 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,279 the Democrat goes to Price, the hunt for the fugitive 141 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,159 is still on the parishes being searched thoroughly. There are 142 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:57,159 officers from different sections of the state, and many volunteers 143 00:09:57,279 --> 00:09:59,159 have joined in the hunt. So at this point in 144 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,679 time been shot and killed because look, everybody's on fire. 145 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,360 This guy has escaped prison. And how about what I 146 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,240 just told you, seventeen year old kid walking across the field. 147 00:10:10,279 --> 00:10:12,559 He starts running because his mom said hurry up, and 148 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,559 they shoot him, I guess, assuming he is the escaped convict. 149 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,600 And other shootings related to that guy's escape. So he's 150 00:10:20,639 --> 00:10:25,159 calls quite the bullshit and blooding and Gola at this point. 151 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,320 So they're on the case. And another article comes out 152 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,480 and it says huge posse pushes hunt for fugitive. More 153 00:10:32,519 --> 00:10:36,240 than one hundred men and fifteen bloodhounds tracking in Gola 154 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,200 escape And I'm referencing this from the Times in Shreveport 155 00:10:40,279 --> 00:10:43,279 as well. More than one hundred armed men of foot 156 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,840 and on horseback and fifteen bloodhounds with attendants today search 157 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:51,240 for the underbrush of a densely wooded strip south of 158 00:10:51,279 --> 00:10:54,919 the state prison for Wilford Lensley, twenty three years old. 159 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,399 And if you notice every article, he's a different age. 160 00:10:58,759 --> 00:11:01,600 Back in those days, people have really no freaking clue 161 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:04,080 how old you were. You just told them and they 162 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,639 went by that. Nobody kept a good record of it. 163 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,000 But I'll continue on twenty three year old escape lifer 164 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,519 whose career has resulted in the slaying now of four 165 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,360 persons and the wounding of three others. The dead Stanley 166 00:11:17,399 --> 00:11:21,240 Couvian killed in Baton Rouge by Lensley during a quarrel 167 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,480 over a girl. That case which sent Lindsey to the 168 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,799 state prison for life. Then it goes on Captain Nelson 169 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,799 Himel and his wife of the penitentiary staff slaying in 170 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,399 their home on the prison grounds Wednesday by Lensley before 171 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,759 his escape for freedom. William Wade, a seventeen year old 172 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:43,600 death farm youth, shot and killed by mistake yesterday by 173 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,240 two prison guards, Jay Coover and Willie Green, who mistook 174 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:51,240 him for the fugitive convict in the hunt. Those injured 175 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,840 gs Cuvian, who is the cousin of Stanley Couvian who 176 00:11:55,919 --> 00:12:00,320 was shot. And it cuts off right there, unfortunately, but 177 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,480 that gives you an idea of all these guys and 178 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:08,720 one gal already in the bloodshed involved by the escape 179 00:12:08,759 --> 00:12:11,440 of this guy. I'm going to read you another article 180 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,679 that came out, and this tells you how crazy the 181 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,879 news was back in these days. Suspect is held as 182 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,559 Louisiana fugitive. The State Guara of Identification said that a 183 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:24,240 man is held in Texas, Canada, Texas, but was not 184 00:12:24,519 --> 00:12:28,320 Wilford Lensley. The bureau said the prisoner's height was given 185 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,639 as six feet two while Lensley was only five foot 186 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,679 six inches. I would say that's a big difference there. 187 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:41,759 Speaker 4: Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today? 188 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 3: Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you 189 00:12:44,519 --> 00:12:45,679 what happened in New York. 190 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 4: It cannot be as crazy as the case I told 191 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,240 you about yesterday in Louisiana. 192 00:12:49,399 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 3: You know what, we should do a podcast about it. 193 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:55,399 Speaker 4: And with that we did. 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A man police believed 201 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:26,360 might possibly be Wilford Lensley, who escaped Wednesday from the 202 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,879 Angola prison farm after killing a prison captain and his wife, 203 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,759 was arrested and they're referencing just prior to finding out 204 00:13:34,759 --> 00:13:38,679 he wasn't the right guy in this particular section. Officers 205 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,840 said he was otherwise uncommunicative. He was arrested while prowling 206 00:13:42,919 --> 00:13:45,679 through a residential section of the city and was taken 207 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,000 a headquarters while officers communicated with the Baton Ridge and 208 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,960 Angola authorities. The arrest was made near the Northwest Louisiana line, 209 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,480 while a South Louisiana posse continued a wide hunt for Lensley, 210 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,559 twenty three, a lifetime who escaped from Angola Wednesday night 211 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,200 after killing a captain and his wife. Peace officers led 212 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,360 by bloodhounds were closing in on a wooden area about 213 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,960 twelve miles east of here where this paper was printed today, 214 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,000 in the belief that Wilford Linsley, twenty three year old 215 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,679 convict who escaped the prison farm Wednesday night after killing 216 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,120 two was hiding in a heavy underbrush in the vicinity. 217 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,919 The hunt centered on a district approximately three square miles 218 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:32,159 in the vicinity of a store in Saint Francisville. All 219 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,480 but about sixty men in the huge posse that sought 220 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,559 the fugitive yesterday were called back to the prison headquarters 221 00:14:38,639 --> 00:14:44,159 last night. The morning, fourteen fresh bloodhounds, followed by guards 222 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,080 on horseback and a foot took up the trail again. 223 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,360 During the night, the guard searched trains passing through the 224 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,200 area and continued to stop automobiles on the highway. Then, 225 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,120 physicians reported that the condition of a guard who was 226 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,320 critically shot. Tom Flew was accidentally shot during the hunt 227 00:15:02,399 --> 00:15:06,799 yesterday and he was critical but showed a slight improvement 228 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,960 during the night. Charles McCrory another guard wounded when one 229 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,840 of the man hunt party fired into the underbrush at 230 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,799 what he thought was an escape. Desperado was reportedly to 231 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,559 be resting comfortably. I mean, they're shooting at everybody. This 232 00:15:21,679 --> 00:15:23,960 is wild And why is this Because a lot of 233 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,519 these possing members back in those days, they weren't police officers. 234 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:31,399 They had no training. They hunted, probably, but they had 235 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,559 no training in anything. They were just out there and 236 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,960 in something moved, they were shooting and killing it. A 237 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,399 third unfortunate victim of the hunt, Willie Wade, seventeen, who 238 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,720 was shot and killed by Jack Hoover and Willie Green, 239 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,600 convict trustee guards at the penitentiary when he refused to 240 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:49,960 hault at their command. He will be buried this afternoon. 241 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,399 Prison officials reported that Hoover and Green had been brought 242 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,879 back to the penitentiary and removed from duty. I would 243 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,360 imagine so, but the opinion prevailed that the shooting was 244 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,080 definitely an accident. Wild shit, right there, These guys shot 245 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,080 and killed as innocent seventeen year old kid, and they're saying, eh, 246 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,639 it was an accident. They shouldn't be punished for that. 247 00:16:13,039 --> 00:16:17,279 A coroner's jerry reported He died from gunshot ones inflicted 248 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,279 by Jack Hoover and Willie Green, convict trustee guards. And 249 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,399 that's the other aspect of this. These weren't correctional officers 250 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,000 like you have today. These were convict guards. And I've 251 00:16:29,039 --> 00:16:31,320 told you about this before when Wood he was hosting 252 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,639 the show, he told you about it as well. These 253 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:38,720 were convict trustee guards. Could you imagine these days giving 254 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,279 a convict a shotgun and saying, here, you're in charge 255 00:16:43,399 --> 00:16:45,840 of all the other convicts, make sure that they don't escape. 256 00:16:45,879 --> 00:16:49,960 Just wild stuff back in the really bloody years of 257 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,440 Bloody and Gola. But I'll continue on it, says his 258 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:56,320 weeping mother said she did not blame those poor convict 259 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,759 boys because they were doing what they thought was right 260 00:16:59,799 --> 00:17:02,799 of Officials said. The only motive they could discover which 261 00:17:02,879 --> 00:17:05,799 led Lensley to kill the captain and Miss Himmel, for 262 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,920 whom he served as a yard boy, was because of 263 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,440 his desire to escape, They said. Miss Himel had not 264 00:17:12,559 --> 00:17:15,880 been assaulted. Lensley was serving a life sentence for the 265 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,839 killing and baton rouge of Stanley Couvion in an argument 266 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,960 over a date with a young girl. Yeah, sixteen year 267 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,640 old girl. Mind you, he was twenty plus at the time. 268 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,160 Two guards who killed the farm boy. They testified at 269 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,200 the corner's inquest into his death. Green, a Negro guard, 270 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:35,680 said he was on a cliff back of a brush 271 00:17:35,759 --> 00:17:38,680 pile when he saw the youth wearing clothing like that 272 00:17:38,839 --> 00:17:41,640 of the fleeing convict, coming down the road. Quote. I 273 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,160 couldn't tell if he was the man we were hunting, 274 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,319 and a hollered halt to him, Green testified. Quote, he 275 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,559 started to run and reached to his back pocket and 276 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,920 as he did, eye shot him. So there you have 277 00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:58,519 that man. You cannot make this up. And this is 278 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:03,039 this is the true history of not only Angola prison, 279 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:07,359 but this occurred pretty much nationwide at other prisons as well. 280 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:11,799 And speaking of trustee guards at Angola, there was actually 281 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,160 somehow I came across this article from July one of 282 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:21,160 nineteen thirty six where they interviewed a trustee guard and 283 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,240 he seemed to have wrote his own It was almost 284 00:18:23,279 --> 00:18:26,319 like an opinion article in this paper. This was the 285 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,160 Times Shreport, and I'm gonna read it to you. It says, 286 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,400 in Gola, Louisiana, when the free guards put me out 287 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,680 of the truck, and he's writing this from his point 288 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,039 of view at Post number two on the Saint Francisville 289 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,440 Angola Highway. Wednesday night, I took up my station in 290 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,160 the woods a short distance from the highway. And again 291 00:18:45,799 --> 00:18:50,400 this is a trustee lifer at Angola. They give him 292 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,599 a shotgun. They say, help us hunt this guy that 293 00:18:52,759 --> 00:18:56,880 escaped prison, and they drop him off right outside the 294 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:01,480 gates looking for this cat right to my mind. So 295 00:19:01,559 --> 00:19:03,920 he goes on. He says, no. Sooner had I posted 296 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,920 myself than Lensley jumped me. He got the drop on 297 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,400 me and he made me drop my gun. He ordered 298 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,839 me to step out and keep my mouth shut. Lensley 299 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,480 picked up my gun and we crossed the highway to 300 00:19:16,559 --> 00:19:19,640 the south side, where he made me exchange clothes with him. 301 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,319 He then unloaded my gun and took the other ammunition 302 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,319 I had and gave the gun back to me. We 303 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,519 spent the rest of the night in the woods, never 304 00:19:28,599 --> 00:19:31,640 getting very far from the highway. I caught a nap 305 00:19:31,759 --> 00:19:34,559 during the middle of the night, but Lensley never closed 306 00:19:34,559 --> 00:19:38,160 his eyes. Thursday, we stayed in the woods, camping in 307 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,640 the hills, but always keeping close to the underbrush. Lensley 308 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,880 told me that he planned to capture a car on 309 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,000 the highway and break through the guard lines. He said 310 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,839 he would let me go when we got through the lines. 311 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,720 All Thursday night and Friday we stayed along the Bayou, 312 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,480 occasionally working toward the highway to watch for cars, but 313 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:02,759 opportunity never presented itself for to take one. Yesterday afternoon, 314 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,359 Lensley spotted the oil derreck where a car was parked. 315 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,400 He told me he was going to get that car. 316 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,079 We watched the dereck all that afternoon and head within 317 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,440 five hundred feet of it. Saturday night, just after daylight, 318 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:18,079 we moved up to the derek and Lensley told me 319 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:19,880 to get out of the opening and see if there 320 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,880 were any guards there. As I stepped into the opening, 321 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,119 I saw Drew Fields, a convict guard. He recognized me 322 00:20:26,279 --> 00:20:28,960 and didn't shoot. He told me to drop my gun 323 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,960 and asked me what I was doing there. I told 324 00:20:31,039 --> 00:20:34,319 him I had been kidnapped by Lensley. Fields then came 325 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,400 to the door of the toolhouse after laying his gun 326 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:40,720 down inside, and I motioned him that Lensley was in 327 00:20:40,759 --> 00:20:44,200 the brush behind me. As Phil stepped back for his gun, 328 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,319 Lensley raised up in fired. The bullet went through the 329 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,839 galvanized iron wall of the toolhouse, striking an oil watchman inside. 330 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,000 After that time, Fields yelled that the toolhouse is bulletproof, 331 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,480 and I knew he was trying to keep Lensley from 332 00:20:58,519 --> 00:21:03,119 shooting anymore. When Lensley fired, I jumped behind an automobile 333 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,000 out of range of Lensley's gun. Lensley eased back into 334 00:21:07,079 --> 00:21:09,839 the woods and made for the ravine. I ran to 335 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,759 a nearby negro's house, and I got an old negro 336 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,279 to go out to the highway with me. I was 337 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:17,960 afraid to go on the road by myself because I 338 00:21:18,079 --> 00:21:22,119 had on Lensley's clothes and was about his build and 339 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,799 thought someone may shoot me. Huh, probably good guess. We 340 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,759 flagged some highway cops. They took us to Percy's store, 341 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:31,039 where we got some more men in the hounds, and 342 00:21:31,079 --> 00:21:34,119 went back to the toolhouse. A few minutes later, Lensley 343 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,400 was dead. We ate blackberries and dewberries and drank from 344 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,960 the bayou. Mosquitoes nearly ran us crazy and kept me 345 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,359 from getting much sleep, and probably kept Lensley awake the 346 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,200 whole time. It was an awful experience, and I guess 347 00:21:48,319 --> 00:21:53,200 I'm lucky to be here today. So I just told you. 348 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,720 At this point Lensley was dead, right? How did he die? 349 00:21:56,799 --> 00:22:00,599 What happened in this article is dated June first, nineteen 350 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,599 thirty six from The Times. In shreport, it says headline 351 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:10,119 and Gola escapee kills himself, cheats posse as he chooses 352 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,559 suicide death. Wilford Lensley's life comes to an end of 353 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,279 bloody trail in desperate gun battle early Sunday morning. Had 354 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:23,160 taken trustee guard as hostage. Twenty three year old triple 355 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,680 slayer Wilford Lensley plunged a bullet through his own heart 356 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,440 early today after a terrific gun battle. And that is 357 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:33,759 exactly how they describe it. With possemen who had trapped 358 00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:37,039 him in a ravine twelve miles east of the Louisiana 359 00:22:37,039 --> 00:22:41,759 State Penitentiary. Forms As a dozen heavily armed possemen closed 360 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:45,559 in with their guns blazing a steady fire, the one 361 00:22:45,599 --> 00:22:49,240 hundred and thirty five pound convict Desperado, he was a 362 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,480 big boy, one hundred and thirty five pounds and five 363 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:54,319 foot six right, took a final shot at an officer 364 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,400 ten feet away and shouted, I'm shot. I'm dying. He 365 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,400 pressed the muzzle of his revolver against his breast and 366 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,279 pulled the trigger. When officers reached him, his shirt was afire. 367 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,839 He died instantly, with his pistol griped tightly in his 368 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,440 right hand in a high powered rifle, which jammed at 369 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,599 his feet. A few minutes earlier, James Hamilton, a trustee 370 00:23:16,599 --> 00:23:20,000 guard who Lensley had abducted and kept with him since 371 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:23,519 shortly after he fled from the prison Wednesday night, notified 372 00:23:23,559 --> 00:23:27,440 possemen of the murderer's whereabouts. Lensley died in a desperate 373 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,799 attempt to make his way through the corridor of possemen 374 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,799 thrown about the wooded area along Saint Francisville and Goal 375 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,359 Highway after he was reportedly seen in the vicinity of 376 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,640 a store Thursday morning. Hamilton escaped from Lensley as the 377 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,640 latter engaged another trustee convict guard and an oil Well 378 00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:49,480 watchman in a guard fight in an effort to take 379 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:54,000 the watchman's automobile. The watchman, Ja Walker, was shot through 380 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,119 the leg and rushed to a Baton Ridge hospital. The 381 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,279 wounding of Walker added to the list of casualty in 382 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:04,880 the and again the verbiage of these exciting three day 383 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,319 hunt for Lensley since Wednesday afternoon, when some unexplained motives 384 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,640 prompted Lensley to stab Miss Himmel to death in the 385 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,240 bathtub of her camp home, then send two bullets through 386 00:24:16,279 --> 00:24:19,519 her husband three hours later. A bloody trail has marked 387 00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:22,920 the search. Willie Wade, an eighteen year old farm boy 388 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,480 so he was seventeen now he was eighteen, was killed 389 00:24:26,519 --> 00:24:30,960 Thursday when two trustee guards mistook him for Lensley. Tom J. 390 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:35,039 Blew It a prison camp form and died from inflicted 391 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:37,440 by a fellow guard while closing in on a wooded 392 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:41,079 patch where Lensley was believed to be hiding. Another guard, 393 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,640 Charlie McCrory, fell from the same burst of fire that 394 00:24:44,799 --> 00:24:48,759 killed blew It. But we'll recover. Walker will also recover. 395 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,960 Hamilton was abducted by Lensley as he took up a 396 00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:55,720 guard post on the Percy Store area late Wednesday night. 397 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,440 He said the killer jumped him as he entered the 398 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,759 woods north of the Saint Wrensisville Highway, took his gun 399 00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:05,839 and AMMO, and forced him to exchange clothing. When Lensley 400 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,359 fled the present. He was clad in a blue shirt 401 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,119 and stripe it blue and white Trusty trousers. Hamilton was 402 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,119 dressed in tan trousers and a shirt worn by Trustee guards. 403 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,200 He said Lensley unloaded his shotgun and returned it to 404 00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:21,799 him and made him walk in the front at all times. 405 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,079 They crossed to the south side of the highway to 406 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,559 make their way up Little Bayou Sarah, keeping close to 407 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,359 the dense underbrush in the daytime and frequently waiting in 408 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,880 the shallow waters of the bayou to throw off bloodhounds. 409 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,000 Hamilton said he was permitted to catch short naps during 410 00:25:38,039 --> 00:25:40,759 the night, but that Lensley didn't close his eyes. They 411 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,079 ate blackberries and drank from the bayou occasionally. Hamilton said. 412 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,519 They will work their way toward the highway in hopes 413 00:25:47,559 --> 00:25:51,799 of capturing an automobile, but the opportunity never presented itself. 414 00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:55,839 Before daylight today, Lensley told Hamilton he couldn't stand it 415 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,480 any longer and was going to make a break through 416 00:25:58,519 --> 00:26:03,000 the lines. Yesterday afternoon, Hamilton said Lensley spotted an oil 417 00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:06,680 derek in a toolhouse where the watchman's car was parked. 418 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,359 He said he was going to get the car. Quote. 419 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,319 When we approached the oil Derek shortly after daybreak, and 420 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,799 Lensley made me go out into the opening to see 421 00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:17,559 if there are any guards station there. I saw Drew Fields, 422 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:19,880 and I read you all that part. Now it goes 423 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,119 on to say when Lensley shot at Fields, I jumped 424 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,960 from behind the car and Fields had hollered out of 425 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,319 that toolhouse that it was bulletproof, and I guess Lensley 426 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,839 believed him, and he eased up that by you as 427 00:26:32,839 --> 00:26:35,519 he did so, I slipped off toward a nearby negro 428 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,359 house and got the negro to go to the highway 429 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,480 with me. In this way, it's written. In those days, y'all, 430 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,559 I was afraid to go to the road by myself 431 00:26:43,599 --> 00:26:46,400 because I was afraid i'd get shot. Hamilton bears a 432 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,519 slight resemblance to Lensley. He's about the same height and 433 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,240 slender build, and had on Lindsey's clothing. When they reached 434 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,279 the highway, they flagged down three patrolmen and they took 435 00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,319 these guys to a store where Quote, we got more 436 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,720 men in the hounds and went back to the toolhouse. 437 00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:06,319 The possemen were in charge of Sheriff elect Teddy Martin 438 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,279 of West Feliciana Parrish. They immediately formed a circle around 439 00:27:10,279 --> 00:27:13,200 the area and closed in. Martin was on the opposite 440 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,119 bank of a little Bayou Sarah, he said when he 441 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,519 saw a group of guards on the other side, on 442 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:21,880 the top of a bluff firing at Lensley. I waited 443 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,960 across the creek, he said, firing as I went, and 444 00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:28,359 Lewis heard a state policeman also started shooting and came 445 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,640 around by a piece of sand. I mean everybody start 446 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,799 shooting and fired at Lensley also. We advanced step by step, 447 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,680 and he shot at me a total of sixteen times. 448 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,799 Finally he shouted, I'm shot. I'm lying, But we thought 449 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:45,799 he was playing possums, so we approached him very carefully. 450 00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:47,839 When we got up to him, however, we saw that 451 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,279 he was dead and that his shirt was on fire. 452 00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:53,279 Martin said that Lensley had been firing with a rifle 453 00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:55,680 that he took from Captain Hymel, but at the end 454 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,160 he was using the captain's pistol, and that it was 455 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,319 apparent that he shot himself with that pistol. Quote Lindsey 456 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:05,680 fired point blank, it heard, and myself just before he 457 00:28:05,759 --> 00:28:09,480 turned the pistol on himself. I guess we were pretty lucky. 458 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,000 During the exchange of fire, one of Lensley's shots knocked 459 00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:16,359 a gun from the hands of a prison dog sergeant. 460 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,359 It was estimated the murderer fired a score of times, 461 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,680 but none of his shots found their mark. Three unfired 462 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:27,799 cartridges were found in Linsley's rifle, and six undischarged bullets 463 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:31,480 were in the magazine of his revolver. The corner immediately 464 00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:34,880 summoned a jury and conducted an inquest, and the jury 465 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,319 found quote weave. A jury impaneled and sworn to determine 466 00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:40,920 that the cause of death of Wilfrid Lensley find that 467 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,079 he died of gunshot wounds, the bullet having entered the 468 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:46,839 body two inches blow the collar bone, and passing through 469 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,000 the left lung, making an exit in the left lower lumbar. 470 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,839 We hereby agree that Lensley died of a self inflicted wound. 471 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,400 Immediately after the inquest, Lensley's body was removed to a 472 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,680 prison hiuse middle at Angola. An hour later, it was 473 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,920 claimed by his father in taking the baton ridge for burial, 474 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:08,480 Lensley's death brought to an end one of the most 475 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,640 intensive hunts in the history of Louisiana Penitentiary. During the 476 00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:16,359 three days, nearly three hundred men engaged in the search. 477 00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:19,799 The posse was composed of agents of the State Bureau 478 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,759 of Identification, State Highway Police, paid prison guards and trustee 479 00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:30,440 convict guards. Warden Jones. General Louis P. Guier, Superintendent of 480 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,599 State Police, directed the search activities. Lensley was committed to 481 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,640 the penitentiary three years ago from Baton Rouge under life 482 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,480 sentence after pleading guilty to the murder in connection with 483 00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:44,559 the shooting of Stanley Cuvian twenty two, after what witnesses 484 00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:47,440 said was an argument over whether he or Cuvian was 485 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,240 going to take home a young girl with whom Cuvian 486 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,920 was seated in an automobile parked at a filling station. 487 00:29:54,119 --> 00:29:57,559 He entered the penitentiary in February of nineteen thirty three. 488 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:01,079 A month later, he was made a trustee guard. Says 489 00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:05,839 that's crazy. This guy just got into Angola a month 490 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,079 prior for murder, a life sentence, and he's made a 491 00:30:09,119 --> 00:30:14,000 trustee guard. Here, here's your shotgun, right, that's crazy. Eighteen 492 00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:17,000 months ago he was assigned to captain Himel's house as 493 00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:21,000 a houseboy. His record at the penitentiary was spotless, and 494 00:30:21,079 --> 00:30:24,519 prison authorities were unable to assign any reason for the 495 00:30:24,559 --> 00:30:27,599 slang of the captain and his wife. Lensley made his 496 00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:30,799 escape from Camp G of the Penal Farm at dust 497 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,880 Wednesday night, after forcing fell aside Guillery of a fellow 498 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,640 convict to accompany him in Captain Himmel's car. Gillory was 499 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,839 released a few minutes later, and Lensley then abandoned the 500 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,640 automobile at the foot of the Tunica Hills, where the 501 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,920 car was bogged down in a muddy ditch. Recounting his 502 00:30:50,039 --> 00:30:53,319 activities from that point on Warden Jones said today he 503 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,519 believed Lensley had circled the north side of the Penal Farm, 504 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,000 cutting back to the Saint Francisville Highway on the east side, 505 00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:03,720 out of the farm where he abducted Hamilton. So there 506 00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:08,920 you have it, the full story of the escape of 507 00:31:09,079 --> 00:31:12,599 Alfred Lensley. And I got to say, all the research 508 00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:16,519 I've done over the years on Bloody Andngola, I never 509 00:31:16,559 --> 00:31:20,519 heard of this. So, as I told you, I'm working 510 00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:23,480 on an episode that is highlighting some of the most 511 00:31:23,599 --> 00:31:27,240 prolific escapes at ain't Goola that you've never heard about 512 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,000 a lot of these. There's not this much information because 513 00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:33,680 not that much happened. But there's a lot of escapes 514 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,359 where they get out and they don't get far from 515 00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:39,960 Bloody Angola before they get caught, So you can cover 516 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:44,319 several in one episode. That's what I was originally researching 517 00:31:44,359 --> 00:31:46,599 when I came across this, and I'm like, oh man, 518 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,400 this will start to finish right here. So I hope 519 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,279 you enjoyed that. Thank you so much for listening. Check 520 00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:58,279 us out on Patreon, commercial, free, early releases, bonus episodes, 521 00:31:58,319 --> 00:32:02,640 and more, Patreon, dot comlash Bloody in Goola Podcast and 522 00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:06,519 until next time. I'm Jim Chapman for Bloody in Gola, 523 00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:11,119 a podcast on two years and making the complete story 524 00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:14,359 of America's bloodiest present Peace. 525 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: A Wall Street line, shackle change O gluesome Gurdie, it's 526 00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:46,880 calling my name. There is no mercy and this been 527 00:32:47,079 --> 00:32:55,440 a tentery juice ass the huge stream game Wrangle three. 528 00:32:57,079 --> 00:32:57,599 Speaker 2: Come here. 529 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:09,039 Speaker 1: He found me to die inside these walls, inside the wild. 530 00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:28,759 Speaker 2: And when the wals I know it's auberbody angleolers Obody Angle,