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Prospects Of Easy Money Led Farm Lad To Criminal Career
Bill Payne and Wash Turner, escaped from Caledonia prison farm in February 1937, sparked the most extensive North Carolina manhunt. They moved across Forsyth Guilford Mecklenburg and Buncombe counties, robbing banks and kidnapping youths, culminating in Patrolman George C Penn’s death near Asheville. Payne, a High Point farm boy turned outlaw, had a long history of prison breaks and a complex life from generosity to crime.
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Soc Charales
Bill Payne
Wash Turner
Buncombe County
H Point
North Line
Caledonia
George C. Penn
Payne
Turner
High Point
Tur
Asheville
Caledonia Prison Farm
I. D. Hinton
W. L. Rogers
Walter H. Williard
Raleigh
Delper
Asheboro
High
Ralph Page
Burke County
Clark Yorke
Duplin County
Arthur Petit
Robert Smith
Wayne County
Halifax
Bill
Penn
Fairview Road
van Patten
Florence
Hendersonville
Oteen
Black Mountain
Charlotte Highway
Fairview
Brown
Hostler
Sheriff's Department
Biltmore Forest
Sheriff Brown
Estelle Miller
Miller
Doc” Miller
Millers
Recreation Park
Thomasville
Payne and
Lola Laverne Hedges
Fort Smith
Ark
Sam Wolf
Swannanoa
Jack McMahon
G-Men
Charlotte
Sanford
Candor
Troy
Laurel
Bowling Bird
Wilmington
Bird
FBI
Brunswick County
Sam Fulford
Southport
Fulford
Orange County
Tennessee
Newport
South Carolina
Richmond County
Indianapolis
North Carolina
Forsyth County
Guilford County
Elm Street
Bunker's Hill
Young Payne
George Co. Penn
Gemen
N. C
United States Bureau of Investigation