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Jess Richards
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Jess Richards

United Press International · March 22, 1959

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Jess Richards, Geneva, Nebraska, farmer, is all smiles as he telephones his family from the Salina, Kansas, police department after two escapees from the Girl's Training School in Geneva were captured early 3/22. Richards had been held hostage by the girls.

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