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Crooks in Candor

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7315
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Abstract:
Bill Payne, called North Carolina's number one outlaw, and his sidekick, Wash Turner (alias Jack Borden) escaped from the Halifax County's Caledonia prison camp on February 1, 1937. The two went on a crime spree that included car theft, kidnapping, and murder. The pair robbed a number of banks across the state, but it was the robbery the Bank of Candor, in Montgomery County, September 29, 1937, that many people remember. Brought to justice in Sanford by G-Men under the supervision of J. Edgar Hoover, the two were executed in 1938 for murdering a state trooper.
Source:
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 3, Aug 2005, p24-26, il
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