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Eleven convicts escape from Pitt County prison unit
Eleven long term prisoners sawed through a cell bar opening at 1:45 a m and fled from the Pitt County state prison unit for white felons near Greenville North Carolina. The escape left 45 inmates in the block with another 38 in a separate unit. Names include Leroy Darden Raymond Picarski Thomas Woodman Lloyd Lee Marvin Tew Woodrow Whitfield John McMurray Johnny Cobb James Wilson John Shealey and others.
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Greenville
N. C
Brock
Pitt County
Pene B. Staples
Hanes
Leroy Darden
Goldsboro
Raymond Picarski
Parma
Ohio
Thomas Leroy Woodman
Lumberton
N.C
Lloyd Lee
High Point
Marvin Tew
Kinston
Woodrow Whitfield
Norfolk
John T. McMurray
Albemarle
Johnny Cobb
Rocky Mount
James Wilson
Beckley
W. Va
John Shealey
Hickory