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from the top of the window and nearly ten feet from the floor. Madden was able to escape the room by opening up the window slightly, shinnying up a water pipe and sliding over the top of the sash and the points of the spikes. Once outside, he found himself on the roof of the women's detention center and climbed over the heavy wire screening where he dropped 15 feet to the ground. This was the private corridor where the magistrate entered the court building. He then left the corridor, down a winding staircase, and escaped through a side door where he proceeded down
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On June 17, 1914, Madden was arrested for complicity in the mugging of a Mrs. Artha Ingram, a collector for the Phips Model
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