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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

01 Dec 1947

Page 16

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 01, 1947

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16

Freed lifer Collins wins freedom after extradition drop

James Robert Collins, an escaped prisoner from Alabama’s state penitentiary, was released from Bucks County Jail in Doylestown Pa after Governor James Folsom halted extradition. He had married and fathered two children since his 1936 escape and was viewed as a model citizen by locals and jurors who had once helped convict him.

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Freedom Alabama James Robert Collins Bucks County Doylestown James Folsom Collins
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Letters of Famous People Do They Merit Publication

A railing editorial notes how compiled letters from poets, generals, and children flood volumes with footnotes. It mocks footnote inflation, praising genuine merit and questioning why mass letters are worth $3.50.

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