Word: alcatraz
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...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison paunchy Convict Al Capone called lean Convict Harmon Waley, kidnapper of little George Weyerhaeuser, a "baby-snatcher." Offended, Convict Waley hit the first U. S. Public Enemy No. 1 on the jaw, knocked him down...
Plucked from Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco Bay by the deportation order with which President Roosevelt purged Federal prisons of 151 aliens last month (TIME, Aug. 5) was one William Henry Ambrose, onetime Chicago drug peddler. Before he was shipped back to his native England last week Convict Ambrose gave newshawks a first-hand picture of life inside the great, grey fortress-prison reserved for the most dangerous Federal criminals in the land. Excerpts...
...Alcatraz is the nearest to escape-proof that it can be made," concluded Convict Ambrose, who once tunneled his way out of Leavenworth Prison. "It's the toughest pen I've ever seen. The hopelessness of it gets you. Capone feels it. Everybody does. You know you'll never get a parole. There's no chance there for anybody ? only that God-awful silence that gets on your nerves...
Italy will get the biggest lot-62. To China go 16. England gets a murderer from Alcatraz. The lone woman on the list, a postal lawbreaker, goes back to Ireland...
...inform readers solemnly on the problem of crime & punishment, and at the same time raise their hair with tales of gangster grue ran through 100 pages of Prison Life Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...