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FATHER PATRICK O'NEILL, O. S. B. Canon City, Colo...
...drawing p. 11); An unholy light filled the wide courtyard of Colorado's State Penitentiary at Canon City, the glare of floodlights and searchlights playing on Cellhouse No. 3. Two other cellhouses, the prison chapel and the messhall, were blazing ruins. In the prison "bull pen"-a sunken space at one side of the yard-some 400 convicts cowered in sullen terror, their shadows moving nightmarishly on the stone walls of the enclosure. From Cellhouse No. 3 where Danny Daniels, burglar-murderer, and five desperate comrades were inducting the worst prison revolt in Colorado's history, came sporadic...
...hostage guards escaped unhurt. Total casualties: 5 dead convicts, 7 dead guards, 3 badly wounded guards, 7 other wounded including Warden Crawford whose head was grazed by a slug. Eight inquiries were started into the origin of the revolt. In 1924 the National Association for Penal Information pronounced the Canon City Penitentiary "the worst in the country" for brutality and repression...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Robert Ellis Jones, 71, of Manhattan, Canon Bursar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, onetime (1897-1902) president of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.; in Greenfield, Mass...
...Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before the assembled military. In Berlin, posing as Prince Adalbert, third son of the onetime Kaiser, he obtained 100,000 marks from a diamond merchant. In Holland he appeared as Canon Charles Dixon of India, whom he had met, and collected a chapel building fund; for India's heathen. In Rome he was honored as a Cardinal's relative. At gay Biarritz he was the son of Poet Maurice Maeterlinck. With graces and fantasies almost super-Maeterlinckian he solicited...