I am a fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang 1932 Signed Robert and Vincent Burns

Description: I Am A Fugitive From A Georgia Chain Gang Robert E. Burns 1932 Grosset & Dunlap 257 page hardcover with jacket Paul Muni/Warner Brothers new facsimile jacket/brodart – illustrated endpapers Signed by Robert E. Burns & inscribed and signed by Rev. Vincent E. Burns (Roberts Brother)_____________________________________________________ First published in 1932 as I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, is the dramatic firsthand account of Robert Burns and his struggle to live a normal life following a single disastrous choice he had made as a young man. Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia’s barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years’ hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932.

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