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...Gate sunsets for the rest of their natural lives. Alphonse ("Scorface Al") Capone may be transferred there from Atlanta Penitentiary.* The Army keeps only two guards armed to watch over the 38 military prisoners now incarcerated on Alcatraz. Since 1858, when Alcatraz first became a military prison, only one convict has escaped. He dressed himself in mourning garments which he stole from the widow of a prison officer and, pulling a black veil over his face, got himself ferried to the mainland on the quartermaster's boat...
...Federal Convict No. 14,431, writing in the October issue of Atlanta Penitentiary's Good Words, expressed an oldtimer's resentment of modern criminals and kidnappers. Why, he asked, should "longtimers" continue "to remain imprisoned and be classified with the racketeer of the present day? There are a good many 'longtimers' in here and other similar institutions who have had nothing to do with the outside or its affairs for many years, and it is these men, it seems, who will have to suffer and bear the brunt of public sentiment, because many years ago they...
...came from Memphis where George R. ("Machine Gun'') Kelly fell into the hands of the police. Wanted in Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnapping, wanted in Kansas City for murder, wanted in Chicago and St. Paul for robbery and murder, Kelly-a heavyset, black-haired ex-convict who got into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story of a 12-year-old girl, they caught him one dawn...
With her first load of doomed human freight in two years, the famed French convict ship La Martinière slipped last week out of St. Martin-de-Ré, out of the Bay of Biscay, bound for the three little "Isles of Safety'' off French Guiana in South America, of which the most famed is Devil's Island. Her entire passenger list of 673 was below, locked in great iron cages. Over their heads was a network of pipes ready to pour out killing live steam in case of mutiny. With their blankets cowled over their...
...nasty position into which the Nazis have pitched themselves becomes apparent. Three courses are open, none of them inviting. The first is to disregard the overwhelming evidence for the defense, and convict the Communists, or at least Torgler, who is the only German of the accused. But the uproar which would follow this decision would make of it a second Sacco-Vanzetti case. In his statements Torgler has not only cleared himself but displayed remarkable courage, sincerity, and intelligence. The second choice is acquittal. But the implication of this is to divert the charge from the Communists to--whom...