By Robert Burns, Matthew Mancini
In 1921, Robert E. Burns used to be a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who came upon himself on the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal process while he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to 6 to 10 years' challenging exertions for his half in a theft that netted below $6.00, Burns used to be shackled to a county chain gang. After 4 months of backbreaking paintings, he made a bold get away, dodging shotgun blasts, racing via swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his means north.
For seven years Burns lived as a loose guy. He married and have become a wealthy Chicago businessman and writer. while he fell in love with one other lady, notwithstanding, his jealous spouse became him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. even supposing he was once promised lenient remedy and a brief pardon, he was once again on a sequence gang inside of a month. Undaunted, Burns did the very unlikely and escaped a moment time, this time to New Jersey. He used to be nonetheless a hunted guy residing in hiding while this e-book was once first released in 1932.
The e-book and its motion picture model, nominated for a top photo Oscar in 1933, surprised the realm via exposing Georgia's brutal remedy of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a bold and heartbreaking ebook, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, event, and, peculiarly, the unshakable braveness and internal energy of the fugitive himself.
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Burns and begged her aid in getting a divorce. This she was perfectly willing to do, stating the terms of alimony and agreeing to secure a lawyer, whose fee was to be paid by my brother. But at this time she took sick, was removed to the hospital and almost died. My brother paid her hospital bills of over one thousand dollars, and incidentally helped to save her life. A few days after he had footed the hospital bills and a few weeks after the divorce proceedings had begun, detectives arrived in his office.
This all happened more quickly than it takes to read it—and I was left by the fire with a much-needed dollar bill. I wondered what it was all about, but dismissed the whole thing until the next day. A hot beef stew, dry socks, and some cigarettes now, and let to-morrow take care of itself. In the afternoon I had already forgotten about my early companions, and, with a full stomach and feeling better, I went out to the "East Point" railroad yards to catch a freight to New Orleans. The "Mardi Gras" was going on A Wanderer 41 there, and I had a desire to see this spectacle.
Mother left for Georgia in June. I arrived the first of 26 I Am A Fugitive July with five sets of affidavits, each one of which contained eighty-six affidavits of leading citizens of Chicago certifying to my brother's good character, letters and affidavits from old friends of my brother, an affidavit of the minister who baptized him, and a number of papers concerning his war record, etc. These we filed with the Prison Commission. In addition I had enlisted the aid of some powerful friends who were prepared to bring some real pressure to bear on the Prison Commission.
