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Thanks to a ruling by Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, Mobster Mickey Cohen, 50, serving a 15-year sentence for income tax evasion, became the first man in memory to leave Alcatraz on bail ($100,000). After seeking to wash away the taint of his 82-day imprisonment with five successive hot baths, the longtime West Coast gambling czar flew home to his Carousel ice cream parlor in suburban Los Angeles and, as a pair of conspicuously inconspicuous plainclothesmen crunched cones at the counter, proceeded to stake out the future. Top items on the agenda: a call on his aging...
...Roosevelt Bull Mooser, the only councilman to vote no to secession: "Remember that more than one-half of the prisoners in state institutions come from New York City . . . What would you do with all the criminals you now farm out to institutions upstate? Would you turn Staten Island into Alcatraz...
...Alcatraz. To come full circle, Backus first had to get out of taut Kentucky Military Institute outside Louisville -"an Alcatraz with tuition," where his best pal was "Cadet Slob" Victor Mature. "I predict you'll wind up in the gutter," said the commandant...
NKVD-trained Hayhanen finally got fed up with the job. According to his story, Moscow ordered Abel and Hayhanen to give $5,000 to the wife of convicted Atom Spy Morton Sobell, serving a 30-year term in Alcatraz. Finding Helen Sobell's Manhattan apartment well guarded by police, they buried the money 45 miles away in a state park. Hayhanen later reported to Moscow that he had actually delivered the money to Mrs. Sobell. Moscow sent another $5,000 for Mrs. Sobell, and suggested that she be recruited for spying. Abel banked this $5,000. Hayhanen then...
...Defenders often receive requests for help through the mail from inmates of Sing Sing, Alcatraz, and other out-of-state institutions...