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TIME deserves a great big pat on the back for its Chessman cover story. This was objective reporting at its finest. No one who reads it need now believe that California is gassing Chessman for something he wrote, and not once was he referred to as "convict-author...
...Death Row Prisoner Caryl Chessman still had a lot of life ahead of him. In the eight years since he read the warden's note, Convict Chessman, 38, has written four books, survived eight different execution dates, outlived the judge who sentenced him to death, and become the world's most famous prisoner, center of impassioned arguments on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week, with Chessman scheduled to die in San Quentin's green octagonal gas chamber next May 2 (execution date No. 9), the California legislature met in Sacramento in a special session called...
...Dickson. Said the warden: "I am at the cell with the condemned man." Ordered Governor Brown: "Well, you can send him back upstairs. I am granting him a 60-day reprieve." In his "holding cell," only 15 paces and ten hours from death in the gas chamber, hawk-nosed Convict Caryl Whittier Chessman, 38, self-admitted hardened criminal, got the news from the warden, asked incredulously: "You're not kidding...
...when France abolished slavery, the oldest of its colonies found itself in desperate need of cheap labor. Since the next best thing to a black slave was a white convict, the Islands of Salvation became a part of the most notorious penal colony in the world. Over the next century, 70,000 Frenchmen were to learn what it meant to be sentenced to the "dry guillotine," but not more than 2,000 lived long enough to get back to France...
FRANK J. PRINCE, MAIN UNIVERSAL MATCH OWNER, is EX-CONVICT, trumpeted a St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline over a long story carrying the byline of tough, tireless Reporter Ted Link. The story told how Frank Prince, 71, principal stockholder in St. Louis' Universal Match Corp. and a complex of subsidiary firms, had, between 1908 and 1925, served three prison terms, totaling nearly ten years, for forgery, grand larceny, and issuing fraudulent checks. Two days later the PD, in its ice-cold charity, followed up with another Prince piece, repeating the same facts and adding a few of even less...