This Day in History: 1935-06-09
Detectives arrested Stinson Powell at his home in Hackensack on the charge that he had escaped in 1927 from a North Carolina chain gang. He had been convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty years. At the time of his escape he had only 4 months to serve. After his escape he had married a Hackensack woman and had been working at the Road Department in Ramsey. He was being held in the Hackensack jail without bail, waiting for extradition back to North Caroline. (Bristow)