Abstract
I will not permit profit from the life blood of a Boston police officer by someone responsible for his killing. That is repugnant to me. I could not live with myself if I permitted it. 1 On September 23, 1970, Katherine Ann Power sat in a parked car, one-half mile from the State Street Bank in Brighton, Massachusetts. 2 This car was the "switch car" in the escape plan of Power and her armed accomplices. 3 Three of Power's accomplices had just robbed the State Street Bank. 4 Unknown to the robbers, a silent alarm in the bank had already alerted the police. 5 Parked outside the bank was Power's fourth accomplice, William Gilday. 6 When Boston Police Officer Walter Schroeder arrived at the scene with his partner, Gilday fired a submachine gun at Officer Schroeder, fatally wounding him in the back. 7 Thus began a twenty-three year flight from justice for Katherine Ann Power. 8 Police caught three of her accomplices within five days. 9 They caught the other in 1975. 10 But Power remained at large, the target of the largest womanhunt in FBI history. 11 In the early morning on September 15, 1993, after months of secretive negotiations between Power's attorneys and law enforcement officials, Power surrendered to the Boston Police in the parking lot of Boston College Law School in Newton, Massachusetts. 12 Power pled guilty in Boston's Suffolk County Superior Court to charges of armed robbery and manslaughter. 13 The trial court sentenced Power to ...