Edward J. Adams
Edward was a notorious American criminal and murderer in the Midwest. He was attributed with seven murders, including three Wichita policemen, in just a little over 14 months’ time. He wounded at least a dozen others. Adams, at age 34, was surrounded and then killed by police Wichita. Adams escaped custody after jumping off the train and within several days joined Julius Finney in the robbery of a bank and general store, Kansas on February 11, 1921. He was captured near Garden Plain by a posse six days later after wrecking a stolen car under a bridge. Convicted of bank robbery, Adams was sentenced to serve 10 to 30 years at the Kansas State Prison in Lansing, in addition to his life sentence in Missouri for murder. On August 13th once again successfully escaped imprisonment after sabotaging the prison power plant and scaling the Lansing prison walls during the night along with inmates Frank Foster, George Weisberger and D.C. Brown. The driver of the getaway car was Billy Fintelman, a Veteran gone bad. Everyone one recaptured days later.
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