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“Within the Eastham family, there are also several stories passed down concerning the subsequent efforts of authorities in West Virginia to extradite the escaped prisoner but I have no documentary or other hard evidence to support those stories. There has been, over the years, a natural tendency in our family to embellish the story of ‘Uncle Bob Ridley’ but no such embellishment is necessary; the provable facts of this extraordinary man’s 82 years reads today like fiction.
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