Post by CCADP on Oct 16, 2005 8:39:12 GMT -5
LeRoy Nash…Oldest man on Death Row now writes exclusively for TNC
Published on 15 October 2005 | Source: TNC
LeRoy Nash. Now writing for The New Criminologist. (©ADOC)
Soon to become the subject of a 1-hour TV documentary special produced by TNC’s Christopher Berry-Dee, and the subject of a motion picture, LeRoy Nash is a living legend.
Read on, and if you are a full member, please visit our ‘Hall of Fame’ Tony Brown et al, and read more about this amazing man’s life.
Viva LeRoy Nash (Arizona #47754) DOB 10.09.1915
"Viva LeRoy Nash is an example to us all. A total, heroic superstar. I love the guy. Even if they gas him, inject him or fry him, they can't kill the man."….
(Charles Bronson - Britain's so-called 'most dangerous prisoner'.)
LeRoy has Charlie`s respect. (©Bronson)
In the Eyman Complex, which houses Death Row, in Arizona's State prison, at Florence is a 90-year-old man.
He is Viva LeRoy Nash and he has been there for twenty years.
This man is a survivor. Born in Utah, in 1915, only a handful of years after Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, he is a living link with a bygone era, growing up at the time of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in the infamous days of prohibition, when the Mob ruled Chicago and Al Capone was King. In the year that Nash entered this world, the Lusitania was sunk, Wyatt Earp was very much alive and American had yet to enter the First World War.
As a child, during the 'Roaring Twenties', Nash and his schoolboy gang turned to robbing food from warehouses so that their impoverished mothers and sisters wouldn't have to turn to prostitution. These 'Angels with Dirty Faces', used a stolen Model 'T' Ford truck to transport their haul.
At the age of only 16, he left home, armed with a rifle, to seek his fortune amid the poverty and misery of The Great Depression. Travelling the country, stowed away in rail boxcars, he lived in labour camps or prisons, where conditions were harsh and it paid to carry a gun.
Falling asleep one night in the basement of a building, he woke to discover he was in a bank and promptly robbed the night safe.
Still only sixteen, the young Nash was arrested in Kansas in a stolen car. He escaped from prison for the first time. On being rearrested he was put into the adult prison at the notoriously tough Leavenworth.
Here, Nash befriended a Mafia consigliore who introduced him to the world of safecracking and jewellery stores. The result was that a Mafia Capo in Florida lost a fruit jar full of cut diamonds whilst another lost a $400,000 coin collection.
Falsely arrested in Mobile, Alabama, for a jewellery heist, Nash observed that the cops were, themselves, wearing of the stolen rings and watches. A few days later, he was allowed to 'escape' from their jail.
During a 24-year stay in Somers prison, Connecticut, Nash ran a protection service for the gay inmate community.
A seasoned veteran of many roller coaster car chases, but never caught in one, LeRoy Nash narrates the story of just why the police eventually adapted their driving tactics by copying the hoods.
In 1982, at 67, an age when most people are retired, the indomitable Nash excelled himself and broke out of prison yet again and travelled to Phoenix, Arizona, where he held up a bullion dealer's store. The desk clerk bravely opened fire and in the ensuing gun battles Nash shot the man, killing him. He was arrested while trying a gun from a much younger man, and is now on Death Row, where he is kept in solitary confinement, despite his age and a failing heart.
But now, 'The New Criminologist' asks why is Arizona so keen to see this man executed, and why have the giant insurance companies been able to influence the length of his prison sentences. Why have the State's Attorneys resulted to illegal and underhand manoeuvres to deny Nash a fair appeal hearing when there is overwhelming evidence to show that Nash had, indeed, acted in self-defence at the time of the shooting?
Although it doesn't do to appear to be glorify the deeds of a killer, there is a courageous, never-say-die quality to LeRoy Nash that shines through the murk and gloom that is the world modern day crime. He is, most certainly, not one of those spineless thugs who gun down people for a handful of loose change or a mobile phone.
Britain's most dangerous prisoner, Charles Bronson, himself a veteran of almost twenty years behind bars, is a great admirer of Nash. In a letter to the author, he writes:
"This Viva LeRoy Nash geezer, an awesome man. He is pure old school, a very old man with old-time villains' morals. A true warrior! Sixty-seven, and he still has it on his toes. (Escaped). What does that tell you? A true Legend!"
Bronson goes on to say:
"Viva LeRoy Nash is an example to us all. A total heroic superstar. I love the guy. Even if they fry him or gas him or inject him, THEY CAN'T KILL THE MAN. And, deep down, I bet all the guards admire him."
LeRoy Nash's memoirs have been graphically recounted in his many letters to the author. Deprived of his beloved typewriter, by a vindictive prison governor, this old man, a living legend, has handwritten more than two hundred pages in which he has recorded the details of his 90 richly colourful years. Over the coming issues, LeRoy's story, much of it in his own words, will be featured in serial form.
Happy Birthday LeRoy see: his pic at:
www.newcriminologist.co.uk/news.asp?id=1957643281
Published on 15 October 2005 | Source: TNC
LeRoy Nash. Now writing for The New Criminologist. (©ADOC)
Soon to become the subject of a 1-hour TV documentary special produced by TNC’s Christopher Berry-Dee, and the subject of a motion picture, LeRoy Nash is a living legend.
Read on, and if you are a full member, please visit our ‘Hall of Fame’ Tony Brown et al, and read more about this amazing man’s life.
Viva LeRoy Nash (Arizona #47754) DOB 10.09.1915
"Viva LeRoy Nash is an example to us all. A total, heroic superstar. I love the guy. Even if they gas him, inject him or fry him, they can't kill the man."….
(Charles Bronson - Britain's so-called 'most dangerous prisoner'.)
LeRoy has Charlie`s respect. (©Bronson)
In the Eyman Complex, which houses Death Row, in Arizona's State prison, at Florence is a 90-year-old man.
He is Viva LeRoy Nash and he has been there for twenty years.
This man is a survivor. Born in Utah, in 1915, only a handful of years after Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, he is a living link with a bygone era, growing up at the time of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in the infamous days of prohibition, when the Mob ruled Chicago and Al Capone was King. In the year that Nash entered this world, the Lusitania was sunk, Wyatt Earp was very much alive and American had yet to enter the First World War.
As a child, during the 'Roaring Twenties', Nash and his schoolboy gang turned to robbing food from warehouses so that their impoverished mothers and sisters wouldn't have to turn to prostitution. These 'Angels with Dirty Faces', used a stolen Model 'T' Ford truck to transport their haul.
At the age of only 16, he left home, armed with a rifle, to seek his fortune amid the poverty and misery of The Great Depression. Travelling the country, stowed away in rail boxcars, he lived in labour camps or prisons, where conditions were harsh and it paid to carry a gun.
Falling asleep one night in the basement of a building, he woke to discover he was in a bank and promptly robbed the night safe.
Still only sixteen, the young Nash was arrested in Kansas in a stolen car. He escaped from prison for the first time. On being rearrested he was put into the adult prison at the notoriously tough Leavenworth.
Here, Nash befriended a Mafia consigliore who introduced him to the world of safecracking and jewellery stores. The result was that a Mafia Capo in Florida lost a fruit jar full of cut diamonds whilst another lost a $400,000 coin collection.
Falsely arrested in Mobile, Alabama, for a jewellery heist, Nash observed that the cops were, themselves, wearing of the stolen rings and watches. A few days later, he was allowed to 'escape' from their jail.
During a 24-year stay in Somers prison, Connecticut, Nash ran a protection service for the gay inmate community.
A seasoned veteran of many roller coaster car chases, but never caught in one, LeRoy Nash narrates the story of just why the police eventually adapted their driving tactics by copying the hoods.
In 1982, at 67, an age when most people are retired, the indomitable Nash excelled himself and broke out of prison yet again and travelled to Phoenix, Arizona, where he held up a bullion dealer's store. The desk clerk bravely opened fire and in the ensuing gun battles Nash shot the man, killing him. He was arrested while trying a gun from a much younger man, and is now on Death Row, where he is kept in solitary confinement, despite his age and a failing heart.
But now, 'The New Criminologist' asks why is Arizona so keen to see this man executed, and why have the giant insurance companies been able to influence the length of his prison sentences. Why have the State's Attorneys resulted to illegal and underhand manoeuvres to deny Nash a fair appeal hearing when there is overwhelming evidence to show that Nash had, indeed, acted in self-defence at the time of the shooting?
Although it doesn't do to appear to be glorify the deeds of a killer, there is a courageous, never-say-die quality to LeRoy Nash that shines through the murk and gloom that is the world modern day crime. He is, most certainly, not one of those spineless thugs who gun down people for a handful of loose change or a mobile phone.
Britain's most dangerous prisoner, Charles Bronson, himself a veteran of almost twenty years behind bars, is a great admirer of Nash. In a letter to the author, he writes:
"This Viva LeRoy Nash geezer, an awesome man. He is pure old school, a very old man with old-time villains' morals. A true warrior! Sixty-seven, and he still has it on his toes. (Escaped). What does that tell you? A true Legend!"
Bronson goes on to say:
"Viva LeRoy Nash is an example to us all. A total heroic superstar. I love the guy. Even if they fry him or gas him or inject him, THEY CAN'T KILL THE MAN. And, deep down, I bet all the guards admire him."
LeRoy Nash's memoirs have been graphically recounted in his many letters to the author. Deprived of his beloved typewriter, by a vindictive prison governor, this old man, a living legend, has handwritten more than two hundred pages in which he has recorded the details of his 90 richly colourful years. Over the coming issues, LeRoy's story, much of it in his own words, will be featured in serial form.
Happy Birthday LeRoy see: his pic at:
www.newcriminologist.co.uk/news.asp?id=1957643281
