Leicester Wagner, third from left with a stick, and his brother, Thornton, far right, spend some time in a back alley behind State Street in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1914. Their stepmother, Florence, once said they had a tendency to "take anything that wasn't nailed down." Leicester spent a year as an inmate at the Boys Republic near Chino, Calif., when he was 16 years old in 1920. But he went on to become a respected Los Angeles newspaperman and war correspondent for the Office of War Information. Thornton became a test pilot and Charles Lindbergh's personal pilot during the Bruno Hauptmann kidnapping trial. He retired from American Airlines in 1966. Photo taken by their father, Rob Wagner.
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