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Lawmen have no leads in search
for Rothchild who left prison
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.
(UPI) — Corrections officials
say they have no new leads in
their search for a confessed
murderer who walked away
from a prison unit here Aug. 4.
Charles “Rocky” Rothchild,
49, who described himself as a
“syndicate hit man,” made his
dramatic escape after prison of
ficials allowed him to meet with
his son for a few hours. Prison
officers said he hadn’t seen his
son for about 18 years.
The onetime Cairo, 111., police
man attracted national attentibn
in 1958 when he signed a con
fession to a Jefferson, Ga. slay
ing of a rural merchant.
An allegedly innocent man
was making his second appeal
for the murder conviction when
Rothchild made his confession
while in a Columbia, S. C. pri
son. The man had been slated
to die in a matter of weeks.
Rothchild, described by cor-
Carter takes
whack at Maddox
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter Wednesday blast
ed Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox and
other politicians who he said
had criticized his programs in
an attempt to get votes.
Carter, on a tour through west
Georgia, said at the Albany
Chamber of Commerce that it
was “disgusting” to see “cheap
politicians ... criticize major
steps forward that are being
taken by me as governor and
members of the legislature”
just to benefit themselves as
“far as votes are concerned.”
Earlier in the day, at Ash
burn, Carter said Maddox had
“no influence in the state legis
lature” referring to passage of
the governor’s reorganization
plan which was opposed by
Maddox.
“The lieutenant governor has
no influence in the state legis
lature. Everything we’ve pro
posed in Atlanta has gone
through” and he’s opposed it
all, said Carter, during an inter
view on a local radio station,
(WMES).
The governor said he felt “it
hurts the state for the
lieutenant governor to make
personal attacks against me,
and everyone else that disagrees
with him.”
He said Maddox “might have
some of the people fooled but
the members of the legislature”
and responsible people “realize
that someone who acts like a
clown, who constantly attacks
Robbery
suspects
sought
ATLANTA (UPI) - Police
were searching Wednesday for
two men who escaped in an un
marked police car after attempt
ing to rob a branch of the Na
tional Bank of Georgia in the
northwest section of the city.
Police said they were holding
one of three suspects, identified
as Lonnie Reynolds, 27, in con
nection with the incident after he
was cornered in a building while
allegedly attempting to flee
from the bank.
The other two men success
fully eluded police as helicop
ters, foot patrolmen and patrol
cars were called into the
search.
Authorities said the trio of
men bound and gagged bank
employes and then forced one
of the employes to open the
vault which triggered the alarm.
The men bound Patrolman A.
L. Mitchell as he answered the
call, forcing him later to con
tact police headquarters and re
port that everything was all
right.
The trio fled when one of
them realized that Mitchell had
mentioned a police code number
for a robbery when he called
headquarters.
Reynolds was spotted by Pa
trolman R. L. Chiders who pur
sued him on foot and arrested
him.
Two men were stopped a short
time later by Capt. H. L. Oakes
who said he stopped their car
because the two acted suspici
ous and “kept looking back at
me.”
rections officials as a model pri
soner, had written an essay on
prison life for the Henderson
ville Times - News prior to his
escape. The scathing attack on
the penal system was published
in the newspaper’s editorial
page Tuesday.
The former University of
Southern Illinois football star
wrote that judges and prosecu
tors should be forced to spend
at least six months in prison to
study “man’s only known
glimpse of hell.”
“This is where boys become
menovernight,’ ’ Rothchild wrote
in the essay. “This is also where
grown men will pull their blank
ets up over their heads so others
will not see the freely flowing
tears.”
Rothchild wrote that prison
“is where the young are bru
tally attacked and sexually mo
lested by beastly older prison
ers.” He also compared prison
other” has little influence in
running the state.
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life to a jungle where the law of
nature prevailed.
Times - News Editor Mead
price wrote in a note adjoining
the essay that “Rocky” Roth
child had reached the point of
no return.” He said it was obvi
ous from their conversations
that the highly articulate prison
er “had long been rehabili
tated.”
“It was obvious that the state
of North Carolina should have
released the prisoner long ago,”
Price said. “His continued im
prisonment was of no value.”
The editor said he published
the essay to show the prisoner’s
frame of mind at the time of his
escape and to spotlight the need
for an overhaul of the prison
system.
Rothchild made his escape
from the prison’s work release
program. He devised an elabor
ate plot to have someone pose
as his son on the day of the
would-be get together.
He greeted the man with
tears, while his real son was at
a near-by motel anticipating the
long-awaited meeting.
Prison officials said Ricky
Rothchild was surprised by his
father’s disappearance and that
he received a phone call from
someone telling him his father
was headed for Cairo, 111.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday/ August 16,1973
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