Thieves Like Us Page #4

I haven't had a Twenty Grand in two years.

I don't want a Picayune.

(WHISPERING) You smoke anything

and you know it.

Hey, that food's pretty good, huh?

You hungry?

It's a hell of a lot better than

what he used to make in the prison, huh?

Here. Have some whiskey.

- Oh, I don't want...

- Come on. It'll help you.

- Give me some.

- It tastes good. It tastes good.

- Hey, hey.

- I know you want some.

- I'm trying to get him to drink some.

- Come on, will you?

All right.

Oh, hell. I just got a soggy cracker.

Hey, Bowie, how's that foot doing?

Bowie.

How's that foot?

- Oh, it's okay. I just needed a shoe on it.

- Yeah.

How's your foot?

My foot's fine. How's your foot?

Oh, you're paying attention.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

RADIO ANNOUNCER:
The Firestone

Tire and Rubber Company,

makers of the famous Firestone ground-grip

tires for cars, trucks, tractors,

and all-wheeled farm implements,

brings you the 18th in

a series of transcribed Firestone...

Here's your newspaper and cigarettes.

Oh, thanks, Miss Keechie.

Damn it. I told her three times,

I don't want Picayunes,

I want Twenty Grands.

BOWIE:
That little lady

ain't got no business

running with a bunch of criminals like us.

Damn it.

Hey, lookie here.

Will you lookie here?

It's about us.

Let me see.

(MEN SINGING ON RADIO)

"Parchman, Mississippi.

"The escape of three life-term prisoners

"who kidnapped a taxicab driver

"in their desperate flight

was announced here tonight

"by Warden Everett Gaylord

of the state penitentiary.

"Combined forces of prison, county

and city officers were looking for the trio.

"The fugitives are

Elmo 'Tommy Gun' Mobley... "

- Tommy Gun?

- "... 35, bank robbery.

"And T-Dub 'Three-toed' Masefield,

"44, bank robbery.

"And Bowie A. Bowers,

"23, murder. "

They're pulling that toe stuff again on me.

All right, you sons of b*tches.

"Mobley and Bowers,

Warden Gaylord disclosed,

"took advantage of permits

"allowing them to go fishing

on prison property

"and Masefield of a pass to town.

"All three were privileged trustees.

"Bowers, the youngest of the escaped men

"who was serving a life sentence,

"had been commuted

from the death penalty. "

- I didn't know that.

- CHICAMAW:
I didn't, either.

"He was convicted

in the murder of a storekeeper

"in Selpa County

"when he was 16 years old.

"He was a member of

the prison baseball team.

"When asked why the three trustees

were able to escape,

"the warden, Everett Gaylord, replied,

"'If you can't trust a trustee,

"'who can you trust?"'

That's it.

Not a very long piece about us, is it?

Well...

Only had a machine gun once in my life,

and I never even got to fire it. I just

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