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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Four Black men who escaped a Georgia chain gang in April were sentenced to four years each in federal prison in East St. Louis, Illinois, for interstate flight to avoid confinement and transporting a stolen automobile.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.-(NNPA)
-Four colored men, who escaped from a chain gang in Putnam County, Georgia, last April 7, were sentenced to four years each in a federal penitentiary last Thursday after they pleaded guilty of interstate flight to avoid confinement.
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interstate transportation of an automobile before United States District Judge Fred L. Wham here.
They are Tommy Lee Lewis, who was serving three to five years for automobile theft; George Shade, one to two years for burglary: Dallas Scott, four to nine years for shooting another man, and Ollie Young, fifteen years for robbery.
They admitted stealing an automobile in Eatonton, Georgia, shortly after their escape.
They were arrested by East St. Louis police last April 13 in an investigation of purse thefts. Each refused to sign extradition papers to be returned to Georgia.
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East St. Louis, Ill
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Last Thursday
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sentenced to four years each in a federal penitentiary
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Four colored men escaped from a chain gang in Putnam County, Georgia, last April 7, stole an automobile in Eatonton, Georgia, were arrested by East St. Louis police last April 13 in a purse thefts investigation, refused extradition, and pleaded guilty to interstate flight to avoid confinement and interstate transportation of an automobile before United States District Judge Fred L. Wham, receiving four years each in federal prison. Original Georgia sentences: Lewis three to five years for automobile theft; Shade one to two years for burglary; Scott four to nine years for shooting another man; Young fifteen years for robbery.