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Deputy Wins Race With Fleet-F ooted FugitiveBy GARY MEYER Tlmus-Ncws Staff WriterAs far as Deputy Nick (Jody was concerned, it simply was Allen Hive's dale with destiny.He didn't know when and he didn’t know vhei'O. but the Sullivan County officer h;id vowed he would recapture Blye. And Tuesday muniing he get Imdtr.nce.Eveii a mad dash by the fleet 23-yoar nld escapee, ending in a desperate twos lory leap from an apartment window, could not prevent the apprehension.‘1 just had the determination to stay with him/' Cody said, adding, “I made a promise I'd Ret him.The promise had come a Her til ye had fled from Cody’s custody last July al Hnfs-ton Valley Com in unity Hospital. The officer had removed Hlye's handcuffs so X-rays could be taken of his wrists.A warning by Cody lie would shoot did not deier the fLnetng prisoner.That was the last local law enforcement . agencies saw of the Kingsport man until Tuesday.Cody said he saw an Ohio van parked in front of a River view apartment about 4 a.m. and having heard that’s where Rlye fled to. kept watch nn the nearby apartments.“I jusl sat there and T saw him look out of a window — apartment 65, recalled Cody.He called for other officers to join him, anti stmt a fellow deputy to the front or the apart men! house.Ry the lime Cody had gotten to the rear of Lhe building, Rlye was off and running out the back door, he said.Despite currying more than a fowexlra pounds in the niidscL-lioti, Cody says heMore Oil Page 6A, Col. 1Tir«-vNxJ*-fc PiOJO - 11-***!ci OcoiDeputies Nick Cody and Wayne Rodgers escort Allen Rlye back io Jail. Cody chased Rlye down in a four-to-five-block footrace Tuesday morning.
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Wed, Dec 28, 1977
Page 21
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