Word: christmus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the window of his office in the State Penitentiary at Columbia, S. C, Prison Guard Captain Olin Sanders last week shouted to Corporal Charles L. Christmus on duty in the yard below...
...These boys" were six convicts who had trapped unarmed Captain Sanders in his office. Since Captain Sanders had given instructions to disregard any order he might give under such circumstances, Corporal Christmus called Prison Superintendent J. S. Wilson. Colonel Wilson called South Carolina's 41-year-old Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, who hurried to the prison. Toward the window of Captain Sanders' office marched the Governor with his hands deep in his overcoat pockets...
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