Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City, Col, officials last week discovered a ten-foot tunnel dug by convicts since last month's deadly riot (TIME, Oct. 14). In the tunnel were found sledges, drills, crowbars, powder. Alarmed, the officials searched the entire prison, found 300 lbs. of daggers, stilettos, blackjacks, clubs, saws, knives made from files ?all the makings of another violent outburst...
Clarke Hiroshi Kawakami of Washington. D. C.: David Louis Landy of Boston: Edward Van Praag Lee of Colorado Springs, Colorado; James Allison McCullough of Watervliet, New York; Benjamin Butler McKeever, Jr. of Malden: Melvin White Mansur of Groton: Freeman Devold Miller of Winchester: John Chester Miller of Tacoma, Washington: Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene of New York City; Saul Gerald Silverman of Cleveland, Ohio: George Winslow Simpkins of St. Louis, Missouri: Francis Beattie Thurber III of New York City: John Walker III of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Frederick Mundell Watkins of Providence. Rhode Island; Edward Cilley Weist of New York City; and John...
...Chaplain at the Pen. In fact, I was never in it before, having come to Colorado in September of this year. I am Chaplain at Holy Cross Abbey, and teach Psychology and English. I have been criticised for not going in this Cellhouse and persuading them to give up. Under the circumstances, that was quite impossible. I was also dressed for golf, and was on my way to the Club, when a young lady told me her Daddy was trapped by the convicts within the Pen. "Greater love hath no man, than a readiness to lay down his life...
...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...
Died. Horse Colorado, 6, son of Phalaris; at Lancashire, England. He won the Newmarket Two Thousand Guineas, came third at the Derby (1926). Owner: Lord Derby...