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He next turned up in this country in January, 1971, in Syracuse, where he was captured in a bus station after allegedly breaking out of a mental institution in Montreal. At the time, the police said it was at least Trapnell's second escape from an asylum. Federal agents who questioned him at Syracuse said he was wanted in Canada for six bank robberies.

They said he was wanted for a $30,000 bank robbery in Nova Scotia in April, 1970, and for two shopping‐center bank holdups in 1969 and 1970 in Toronto.

In one of these, the bank manager was kidnapped. The manager was released unharmed, and Trapnell was arrested in Quebec Province, where he was confined to the mental institution.

When he escaped, he took a guard as hostage and fled with a girl who had visited him frequently and apparently brought him a pistol. He drove to Syracuse, where the guard was released. The guard then called the police, who promptly picked up Trapnell in a bus station.

Last September, in a Federal District Court in Miami, Trapnell sought title to a 60‐foot aluminum yacht, the Argosy, which he claimed he had pur chased three months earlier for $306,800 in $100 bills. He testified that he had paid the money to James H. Fahey, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., boat builder, who disappeared the day of the alleged transaction and has not been seen since.