with her boyfriend William Howard (Bill) Gaskell.
At the time, we lived in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood at 5400 S. Ridgewood court.
They embarked on a coast-to-coast armed robbery spree, suspected in
15 separate incidents from Oak Park, IL to Los Angeles CA and back to Miami FL.
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The staff writer, Billy Cox, interviewed me, Bill Gaskell's ex-wife and my sister
to tell the inside story of my search for my mother's past.
It is titled "THE MYSTERIES OF MA FLO"
Click here to read the story from the Sarasota Herald Tribune website.
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MAY 31, 1955 (PICTURE ON PAGE 1 AT THE BOTTOM)
Florida Case Law LONG v. STATE, 92 So.2d 259 (Fla. 1957)January 23, 1957. On January 26, 1955 an information was filed by William M. Smiley, State Attorney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida for Sarasota County, prosecuting for the State of Florida in the County of Sarasota, containing allegations "that Dewey Long late of the County and State aforesaid, on the 21st day of January the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-five, in the county and state aforesaid did unlawfully and feloniously convey into a cell block of the Sarasota County Jail, a place of confinement, an instrument, to-wit: a piece of wood, commonly referred to as a 2 X 4, which was a thing useful to aid a prisoner in making her escape, * * *."
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