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...last week Linda Gaddy Bilbo, tall, thin, grey-haired wife of the stocky little pecan-growing Governor of Mississippi, summoned her Cadillac to the front door of the Bilbo home at Poplarville, Miss. To her Negro chauffeur, an ex-convict pardoned by her husband, she named her destination: West Point, N. Y. Then away she drove to visit her son. Cadet Theodore Gilmore Bilbo Jr., a plebe at the U. S. Military Academy...
...sentence of more than a year rnakes a convict eligible for parole after one-third of its execution...
...many of them splendid women. . . . The prisoners give only the street address of the prison in Ossining and often elaborate on the views from the windows and the beauty of the Hudson River. . . . The unsuspecting feminine reader enjoys the letter and is soon writing out her soul to a convict lover, thus building up a tremendous problem against the day of the prisoner's release into society...
...third convict, James Raymond, made a similar confession to Warden Preston E. Thomas shortly after the rioting which followed last spring's conflagration. Harrowed by remorse, he asked to be placed in solitary confinement. There he hanged himself with his blanket that night. Another prisoner was placed in the same cell and warned that the dead face of the suicide would stare down on him. Next morning this man, James Maloney, admitted having supplied candles to start the blaze, denied knowing what they were to be used for. He will be indicted after the State of Ohio has dealt...
Early last week it was evident that the foment had not quieted in the old prison. Three convicts tried to start another outburst in the mess hall. And when the convict band at Stateville, practicing unguarded, fought among themselves over the question of inciting similar disturbance, prison officials knew that the newer institution had also been infected with the virus of revolt. They announced: "Things are hot right now. Anything might hap- pen." It happened next...