Word: boardmen
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...Only way the Board could make room for new prisoners was to shunt old ones out as fast as they could. Meantime those remaining stirred like cattle squeezed in a ship's hold. A score had lately been sent to dungeons for riot & rebellion. Pondering their problem, the boardmen and Secretary Mark Noon adjourned to Warden James B. Holohan's house for lunch...
Convicts and boardmen traded clothes. Far too perturbed was Boardman Stephens to care that his new trousers did not meet in front. Secretary Noon telephoned the captain of the guards, got him to promise no shooting. Herding their hostages into the warden's automobile, the convicts roared through the prison gate...