Eighty-four years ago today Anthony Tarrella became an ex-con by escaping
from Sing Sing prison but not the way he intended. After dinner he and
the other inmates were out in the yard when the call came to line up and
return to their cells.
As the convicts were marching in Tarrella
suddenly ran for the wall in full view of the machine-gun toting
guards. His brothers in stripes yelled for him to stop but he made it to
the wall and scaled the twelve feet and dropped. He ran to the second
wall, an eighteen footer, and climbed that one too as one of the guards
raised his Tommy gun and yelled, “Stay where you are or I’ll shoot!”
Tarrella flung himself off the wall and was momentarily free as his
body flew into the Hudson River, but just as he splashed down the
officer with the Thompson let go with a blast. Moments later Tarrella
floated to the surface, an ex-convict
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
2 comments:
He'd have made it if he were only a little faster. Having that second helping of dessert at dinner was what probably did him in.
Second desserts were introduced just for that reason.
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