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- NATION, Page 25American NotesSOUTH CAROLINAA Cannon on The Loose
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- 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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- 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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