Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-356).
Contents
Early life -- Up the river -- Like a lamb to the slaughter -- The tri-state terror -- Trial and punishment -- Big Mac -- Wichita -- Guilty as hell -- Greetings from the big house -- The great escape -- Robbing banks ain't no crime -- The Bradshaw-Underhill Gang -- Brothers in crime and a trip to the alter -- Funning with the devil -- Epitaph for a badman -- Home sweet home -- A funeral fit for a king.
Summary
Seventy years after Wilbur Underhill's death at the hands of the FBI, Morgan has produced a biography of the Depression-era outlaw. Convicted of murder in Oklahoma he was sentenced to life and escaped, killing a cop and receiving another life term in Kansas, and then escaped again, leading ten others in a mass breakout. In the last months of his life, he rose to national notoriety as a prolific bank robber and suspect in the infamous Kansas City Massacre and became the first criminal ever shot down by agents of that fledgling agency which would soon become the FBI.
