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...Sing Sing, when a convict begged for news of his sick baby, prison authorities teletyped a query to Newark police headquarters. A motorcycle policeman sped to the convict's home. Back clicked his report to Sing Sing: "Baby recovering from mild case of measles. In no danger...
...confinement for crime, the artists, almost to a man, painted outdoor scenes, portraits, religious subjects in loud clashing colors. Only a handful busied themselves with prison themes. Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital...
...color the rest of the pictures from prisons had little in common. Many were copied from postcards, magazine covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks, pigeons, Chinese junks and a group...
Robert Montgomery, as the escaped convict, Porter, boards a Los Angeles bound bus, a Greyhound bus, (note the advertising element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped...
...will be hard to convict criminals for first degree murder in future years, because of the mishandling of the Millen case," said Samuel B. Warner '12, professor of Penal Legislation and Administration, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "The erroneous conviction of the two taxi drivers for the killing will influence all murder trials for the next decade. The attorney for the defense will stand before the jury and say, 'Gentlemen, I hope the real culprit confesses before you convict this innocent man of murder.' Immediately the jury will think of the grave mistake in the Millen case...