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Eastern State Penitentiary Escape, North Philly Home Invasion, Ambler Asbestos Waste Site

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/02/15 9:42 am | updated: 04/02/15 9:42 am

Eastern State Penitentiary in Fairmount is now a tourist designation, but it once housed some of the country's most famous criminals with stories that made headlines. Friday marks the 70th anniversary of a famous Philadelphia prison escape. Bank robber Willie Sutton â€” also known as "the actor" because he wore costumes to perform bank heists across the country â€” was an inmate at Eastern State. He was one of twelve prisoners who on April 3, 1945 broke out of the penitentiary by way of an underground tunnel. Most were captured a short time later. Eastern State spokeswoman Annie Anderson says even though Sutton took credit for being the mastermind, it was later discovered prison plaster worker Clarence Klinedinst, with the help of his cellmate, created the passageway from their cell over the course of a year. The tunnel escape story is part of a pop-up museum at the Penitentiary called Escape! which features artifacts not commonly seen by the public. Escape! opens Thursday and runs through April 12th.

Police are investigating a home invasion that took place early Thursday morning in North Philadelphia on the 1500 block of East Tulpehocken Street. A woman inside her home heard a noise at the back door. She went to see what was going on when she reportedly saw a man in a ski mask. The victim told police he was armed with a gun. Police say the suspect left the home without taking anything. The victim was not injured.

Residents in a Montgomery County community are fighting to have an asbestos site removed from one of their neighborhoods before a developer breaks ground on the land. A ten-acre asbestos waste site in Ambler is the place where an apartment complex is set to be built. Sharon McCormick with the Ambler Borough council says the developers approved plans allows them to build on the site without cleaning it up. Ambler is known for having a higher than average number of cases of mesothelioma â€” a cancer related to asbestos exposure.

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