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<text id=91TT1658>
<title>
July 29, 1991: American Notes:South Carolina
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 25
American Notes
SOUTH CAROLINA
A Cannon on The Loose
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<p> Elvis Presley could probably swing through parts of South
Carolina in a flying saucer these days without anyone noticing.
Everyone in the northwestern portion of the state is too busy
trying to keep track of Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after
getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man,
Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law
Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a
37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then,
his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have
become the stuff of folklore.
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<p> Local listeners are tuning in news programs for updates on
Cannon's status, and DOYLE WAS HERE T shirts have popped up for
sale. WMYI, a Greenville radio station, has been broadcasting
a tongue-in-cheek musical tribute to the famous fugitive ("What
would y'all do if I broke outa jail?"). Police are not amused.
"I don't understand the logic," says Hugh Munn, a spokesman for
the South Carolina law enforcement division. "He's not Davy
Crockett."
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