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AT 21304 | ee re For your “information, a::; lone | ‘been known ‘to: _ the Knoxville Office as the result of numerous civil rights - - complaints made while incarcerated at Eddyville. None of oo these has had any apparent merit. From personal knowledge of agent personnel working the prison, he is known as a con-man without peer. About five years ago, he feigned an eye disorder and was taken to Paducah, Kentucky, for medical attention... While there, he persuaded his guard to release him temporarily, went to the U.S. District Court Clerk, where he filed a legal © "paper, then rented an ambulance to transport an imaginary relative. ' to a hospital, and thus made his escape from the Paducah area. | He was subsequently apprehended in Chicago as a result of his . ._ lack of knowledge of current car prices, when he tried to ‘sell a. car he had rented. - subsequently received nation-wide publicity: as - a con-man as a result of his activities in Cook County Jail: while awaiting (and fighting) removal back to Eddyville. --He has - long been active as a "jailhouse lawyer" and has filed many _ briefs and petitions for writs for other inmates. -He received - an additional five years for the above escape. “His original»). sentence was for Obtaining Property Under False Pretense -and = _ - was for 13-years (from Louisville, Kentucky): and entered | prison © here on 1731/61. He was Broled on 91/19/70— Deeg EY aL A The subject has FBI Number ee felony convictions for TTSMV and ITSP. . " ae Gia: : of a high order of: intelligence, ‘4s ‘affiable - .. “and talkative and as previously noted, unless he is known, he °) - can, to use the words of a prison oftictal, * "sell you. anything . he wants to sell". De. . There was a detainer from the Sheriff's office, Memphis, ~ on file at the time of his parole. Since he refused to waive’ - extradition, he was turned over to the Sheriff's Office,- ‘Eddyville, Kentucky, and an extradition hearing was set. -He made bond in: Sot as Jewel ¢ conversion charges. «.the amount of $2,000 and of course, failed to return. Thus, he ve ds still presumed to be wanted oy Memphis ‘authorities’ ‘on a we hes When he was paroled, not one , known prison ‘offici "believed he would "make it on the outside" because of his : _. \“imsatiable desire to play a confidence game for ce own A Bakes fas. well as for the money involved. *: -.-.-- Wied SESESE Soe