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Last January his family paid $37,692 of the fine and his penitentiary term in Alcatraz was declared at an end. At Terminal Island he served out his jail sentence, paid the balance of his fine, and good behavior there entitled him to final release this month...
...practice ever since he started to run for office to defend him when I thought he was right (and I submit that nobody ever defended him better), and to criticize him when I think he is wrong. ... I will continue to do that until they put me in Alcatraz...
...them, issued a list of ten most wanted, most dangerous criminals. Tom Dewey's Leopard, whom he had built up as No. 1, appeared only as No. 4. Ahead of him came Irving Charles Chapman, Texas bank robber, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe* bank robbers, who escaped from Alcatraz two years ago. No. 5 was Paul Cretzer, 29, another bank robber...
Last week Mr. Roosevelt's second Attorney General, gentle, pious Frank Murphy, having just returned from visits to Alcatraz and the contrasting U. S. prison farm at La Tuna, Tex., announced that he is against Alcatraz. "It is necessary to have a place like Alcatraz to break up a crowd that conspires to escape or kill or murder," he said. But he believed results equally good could be obtained in an escape-proof, walled farm, without quite such grim technique. "It is a great injustice to San Francisco," he said, "to have that place of horror on the doorstep...
Homer Stille Cummings is still in Washington, practicing law privately. Harvey Bailey, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Harmon Waley and numerous other bottomnotchers are still in Alcatraz, where he put them. "Scarface Al" Capone, whose transfer from Atlanta Mr. Cummings personally supervised from a top floor of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel in 1934, got transferred out last winter, crazed as much by paresis as by confinement. Of Frank Murphy's view of Alcatraz, Homer Cummings did not think much. Said he: "Those babies wouldn't stay in a prison farm very long...