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...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...
...Convict No. 23,118 worked as night interne in the Leavenworth hospital, taught a prisoners' night school, edited the New-Era, prison publication. His behavior was excellent. He took no part in last year's Leavenworth mutiny (TIME...
Charles T. Davis of Brooklyn, "World's Richest Convict," finished an eight-year sentence for murder at Dannemora Prison (Clinton, N. Y.). With $1,250,000 in travelers' checks, he left in a private car for California. During his imprisonment, caused by his killing a detective, his surgical supply business was sold for $2,500,000, part of which was turned over to his wife, from whom he has separated...
...Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to riotous fury last year, the House of Representatives last week approved a batch of bills to start President Hoover's $7,000,000 prison reform program. Among other things they provided...
...Atlanta, Tom McGee, ex-convict, threw a brick through a store window, stole a shirt, reported to police. He told the judge that while in prison camp he had grown so fond of feeding the hogs that he wanted to go back. The judge acquiesced...