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...served a term (1929-31) in Federal prison on McNeil Island, Wash. for income tax evasion, divorced his wife in 1932 because she called him "ex-convict." His current girl: pretty, shapely, dark-haired Barbara Land...
These stories Jock Bellairs denies with a twinkle in his eye. His more sober exploits he will admit. He helped to convict Playboy Arthur Duestrow of killing his wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser...
...Princetown, England, home of famed Dartmoor Prison, villagers watched open-mouthed while a uniformed convict shambled sheepishly through the town, knocked at the prison gates, shouted: "I've been locked...
...good) they converse under guard for 2½ hours. After the prisoners are locked in at night, the guards engage in rifle practice. They leave their targets (human-shaped dummies) sprawled along the walkway with bullet holes in vital spots for the prisoners to see in the morning. No convict has escaped alive from Alcatraz. A number have gone "stir crazy." The penal psychology there is to make big shots into little ones. The country's" most poisonous malefactors are sent there to prevent their infecting less dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz, "The Rock," is one nightmare...
Died. Julian F. Thompson, 50, playwright (The Warrior's Husband) and treasurer of McKesson & Robbins, who started the investigation that exposed President Coster as ex-Convict Musica; of influenza; in Manhattan...