find their escape blocked by Penn. Jn a gunbattle, they killed the
Patrolman, Their automobile got stuck in a ditch and they used the
patrol cak to pull it out, leaving fingerprints which positively, i-
dentified them as Penn's slayers, The two men, termed by now the
most dangerous desperadoes in recent North Carolina history, were
placed on the Most Wanted bist of the FBI. The Federal authorities
were notified by an unidentified tipster that the two men would be
in Sanford on Jan. 3, 1938, and when they parked their car, they
were immediately surrounded by FBI Agents and surrendered. Both men
confess8d though they claimed that they had never wanted to kill
Penn or anyone else. Convicted, they were executed in North Caro-
lina's gas chamber on July 1, 1938, Payne wag hl-vears-old while
Turner was 36-years-old at the time of their deaths,
THE ASHEVILIE CITIZEN, ASheville, N. C., 7-2-1938
A Raleigh, N. C., SSEB paper, Jan. 31, 195). Photo of both men as
: well as Penn in this Raleigh paper.
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find their escape blocked by Penn. In a gunbattle, they killed the
Patrolman. Their automobile got stuck in a ditch and they used the
patrol cai to pull it out, leaving fingerprints which positively, i-
dentified them as Penn's slayers, The two men, termed by now the
most dangerous desperadoes in recent North Carolina history, were
placed on the Most Wanted List of the MBI, The Federal authorities
were notified by an unidentified tipster that the two men would be
in Sanford on Jan. 3, 1938, and when they parked their car, they
were immediately surrounded by FBI Agents and surrendered. Both men
confess8d though they claimed that they had never wanted to kill
Penn or anyone else. Convicted, they were executed in North Caro-
lina's gas chamber on July 1, 1938. Payne wag }il-years-old while
Turner was 36-years-old at the time of their deaths,
THE ASHAVILIE CLTIZEN, Afheville, N. C., 7-2-1938
A Raleigh, N. C., B8SB paper, Jan. 31, 195). Photo of both men as
well as Penn in this Raleigh paper.
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Payne, a native of Forsyth Co., N. C., was first aprested in Surry
Co. for autombbile theft in 1921. That same year, Turner, a sailor.
who. was_bornin-McDowell Co, , N.C, , was-arrested for the first time
in San Diego, Calif., for the same offense. These were the first in
were serving time together at the Caledonia Prison Farm in Halifax,
~N, ©., when they and three other prisoners escaped, taking four pri-
coli son.guards_and_officilals_as_hostages,__They-fled_to Vass, over 200
miles away, before they released their hostages: unharmed. The other
"prisoners were #488 rapidly recaptured but Payne and Turner dropped >
__.cut_sf_sight.__for the next—several months, theywere suspected of
various automobile thefts and bank robberies. On Dec. 13, 1937, they
approached a truck weighing. station near Asheville where highway
-—patrolmen_were_conducting a_routine drivers! license—check, They —___
were driving a stolen automobile and when they saw the patrolmen,
they turned around in the xgix highway and went in the opposite di-
a 1 mM @] 5 ue
__rection. FRXRSXHEKX George Penn, a 22-year-old Patrolman, gave
chase and Payne and Turner turned on a dirt road. When the road
~ came to-a dead end at a barn they drove around XX&xXEX it only to
PAYNE, William and TURNER, John Washington j Ve y / gs
Co. for autombbile theft in 1921. ‘That same year, Turner, a sailor.
who was_bornin McDowell Co,, 1, C,, was arrested for the first time
in San Diego, Calif., for the same offense. These were the first in
—son_guards_and_officials as hostages,_They fled_to Vass, over 200 ——
miles away, before they released their hostages: unharmed. The other
prisoners were #R496 rapidly recaptured but Payne and Turner dropped
out_sf sight Yor _the-next—several months, they—weresuspected_of __
various automobile thefts and bank robberies. On Dec. 13, 1937, th
approached a truck weighing. station near Asheville where highway
—patrolmen_were_conducting a_routine drivers! license—check, They.
were driving a stolen automobile and when they sap the patrolmen,
they turned around iin the xix highway and went in the opposite di-
tion. RExPSIXBRX George Penn, a 22-year-old Patrolman, gave_
chase and Payne and Turner turned on a dirt road. When the road
came to a dead end at a barn they drove around EXSXEX it only to
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miles avay, before they released their hostages unharmed, The other
foners wore SAMIG rapidly recaptured ‘ub Fayne and Turner dropped
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