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Examples of its satire are:1) that the women's wing of the prison is located so conveniently that one of the convicts has no difficulty initiating a love-affair with the best-looking female prisoner; 2) the escape of certain prisoners dressed as women, who get out to help a pal of theirs in trouble and come back as soon as their good deed is done. Only intentionally funny sequence-the baseball game between rival convict teams...
...prosecutor he found it virtually im possible to discover or convict organizers of the drug traffic. They were too clever for his detective staff. One significant fact he learned by hearsay: the "big fellows" like the late rogue Arnold Rothstein, are rarely drug addicts. Nonetheless his men did make some important raids. No table were those last November and December in Greenwich Village, Times Square and Harlem...
...fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker and William ("Three-fingered Jack") White, both agents of the coal teamsters union (nonA...
...nine-year-old girl screamed that a Negro had attacked her. Immediately a posse of 1,000 formed, followed bloodhounds to the County Stockade, a chaingang prison-camp. There the sheriff arrested five Negroes, took them before the nine-year-old for identification. She picked Willie Kirkland, 20, convict doing time for horse-stealing. The warden said Kirkland had not been out of the Stockade all that day. When Kirkland was returned to the camp, a mob of 75 gathered, including the nine-year-old's father. The sheriff decided to take his prisoner to a nearby town...
...Wishery camp [on the Wishery River] consists of about 27 sq. mi. of Siberian territory. Within this area were about 17 convict stations and barracks...