Word: atherton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around a table at San Quentin Prison one morning last week met Frank C. Sykes of San Francisco; Joseph H. Stephens, Sacramento banker; Warren Atherton, Stockton lawyer. They were members of California's Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and at the moment none was particularly happy about it. Clyde Stevens, a notorious bandit, had just accomplished his fourth bank robbery since they paroled him last October. The Press was hounding them again for laxity...
...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay seriously hurt, the convict leader died. To the shock of Boardmen Atherton, Stephens and Sykes was added chagrin when the recaptured convicts confessed that it was Clyde Stevens who had smuggled their guns into the prison. Next day on a swampy island in the Sacramento River, police caught Bandit Stevens...
...yard backstroke--Harvard: Siekard T. Fisher, Jr. '36, Robin W. Mean '35; Alumni; Edward E. Stowell '34, Edward G. Relvenston '33, Henry V. Atherton...
HARVARD BROWN Olney, l.e. r.e., Swartz Atherton, l.t. r.t., Croei Kidder, l.g. r.g., Caldrone Greeley, c. c., Hinckley Robinson, r.g. l.g., Senecal Brown, r.t. l.t., Horowitz Higgs, r.e. l.e., Certuse Pedrick, q.b. q.b., Bernstein Hoye, l.h.b. r.h.b., Foster Fletcher, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bartlett Brookings, f.b. f.b., Greenberg...