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Freed. Writer Ernest C. Booth, 39, from Folsom Prison, after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif...
...year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin's tale, instead told one about a rich New Yorker named Shattuck who pursued a thieving butler across the ocean, caught...
...edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs sometimes came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers...
...lump of brick and mortar. In The Bronx it was discovered that nine little girls aged 9 to 12 had been voluntarily submitting to indecencies at the hands of a 56-year-old plumber and a garage proprietor, 64. In Brooklyn, a 37-year-old ex-convict, only seven months out of Sing Sing where he had been sent for a sex crime, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life for taking two girls, 8 and 10, to a cinema and carnally molesting them. Indicted in Brooklyn was another ex-convict, 49, and twice convicted of statutory offences against children...
...Press, it looked to laymen as if a national wave of sex crimes against children was in full surge. In the opinion of competent medical authorities, however, the number of cases of this kind of psychosis that reached print was purely accidental, although both the older Brooklyn convict and the Staten Island house painter declared that their crimes had been suggested by newspaper accounts of similar assaults earlier in the summer...