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narrowing opening.His escape was discovered minutes later by jailer Joe Lyons. All deputies on duty, city police and the Florida Highway Patrol as well as Manatee Countyauthorities were given a pick-up order for the escapee along with a full description.19Free RideHome (iivenThree MenIThree street comer philosophers received a free ride home early Saturday morning.About 5 a.m. Saturday the Sarasota Police Dept, received a report that three men were arguing philosophy and logic in tones not in keeping with the early morning hours. : ;,v,' ,'V:V lt;*,/£;Lawrence G. Berger, 23, 4652 Higel Avenue, Sarasota; James G. Crotty of Jacksonville, and John Brooks Vallentine, 19, 1733 North Drive, told patrolman S. A. Lasher that thev were verv tired andLopez calmed down. Then the captain told me to go get a sledge - hammer to smash the locks.“I left the jeep, leaving Lopez in the hands of Jackson, a six-footer and over 200 pounds. Maybe 35 years old.“While 1 was gone. Jackson got the gate open. In the darkness, he and Lopez went into Cuba territory.“When I returned a sentry told me he had heard a shot. So I ran along the fence on the American side. This fence splits Castro land from the Navy base rightdown to the water’s edge with barbed wire about seven feet high so no one can go around the fence.“As I ran down the fence line. Jackson came running H*ck up He, too, was on the American l side. He had gotten over the fence farther down. He said ex-pi t l v **I had to shoot him!’“And I replied: Well, the! hell with it. Just forget it rightnow.^So we decided to move thebody over to the American side and bury it. We went out to the gate, discharged the sentries, cut the barbed wire and went into the Cuban side to get Lopez.“Jackson and I moved the bodya short distance, then I went upthe cliff and lowered a rope, figuring we’d pull it up,“But this didn’t work. Thejagged rocks cut the rope on the 25-foot trip up. Down went the spy's body.“We were wondering what to do now. And that led to involving another lieutenant who ultimately was dismissed, too. He told us where to get some strong nylon rope to hoist the body. That’s all he did. I’m not giving his name because it might hurt him if I did.“Anyhow, Jackson and I went back to the body, wrapped it in a poncho, tied the nylon rope to it and tried again to pull it up the cliff. It was just too heavy.“Finally. I suggested we get a pickup truck, tie the rope to the truck and pull the body up that wayiSENT TO FBI LABAn attempted breaking and entering was reported at 200 South Washington Blvd. shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday.City Patrolman Brian Shumway said someone tried to pry open a door at that address but had met with apparent failure.Shumway said the door was damaged to the extent that the key would not fit the lock.IIIISHOP MONDAY A ’TIL 9, SAR,i
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Sarasota Herald Tribune
Sarasota, Florida, US
Sun, Apr 28, 1963
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