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...days later the mysterious underworld "grapevine" had carried news of Dannemora's riot to the state prison in Auburn. Unlike Dannemora this institution?with convict self-government and liberal policy?has often been called "the prison without walls." Built to hold 1,350, it was last week overcrowded with 1,818 malcontents. On Sunday the men, numbering 1,700, led by a trusty, walked to the yard for an outing. At the trusty's knock at the "key room," a guard opened the door, was immediately kicked senseless. After shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. last week gave testimony which helped convict one Meyer Sussman, 20, of illegally entering her Manhattan apartment building, once as a bogus tailor's boy, once as a fake cleaner...
There was little satisfaction for Convict Sinclair in the knowledge that, by simultaneous decision of the Supreme Court, he was to have a friend in the jail with him-Manhattan's Henry Mason Day, the friend who had tried to help him in his first oil scandal trial and received a four-month sentence as a result...
...Sunday, Convict Sinclair received his first caller, John Hardy, a Manhattan business associate. They sat in the pharmacy talking, smoking cigars. A guard stood at the door, to bar intruders. Mr. Hardy stayed 30 minutes beyond the regulation hour for visitors...
When a newsgatherer sent in his card to see Convict Sinclair during visiting hours, he got back a curt message: "Not at home to the press...