In the second mass escape in two weeks from the same Texas prison farm, eight more convicts bolted from infamous Eastham on Jul. 8, 1937.
This was how the Associated Press reported the manhunt for the first bunch on Jun. 23: “Nineteen ‘hardboiled’ convicts who fled to freedom from Eastham prison farm sought to keep out of the reach of an army of men and bloodhounds searching for them in the scrub o…
