109 - The Champion Jail-Breaker

John Frankford was a notorious thief of pretty much anything that wasn't nailed down.  His 30 year career in Pennsylvania and elsewhere is a series of crimes, arrests, and jailbreaks, punctuated with the occasional jail sentence that's actually served.  

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