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South African jails are overcrowded, mostly with Negroes. These convicts are used to build more prisons to hold more Negroes. They are also hired out to farm- ers. Charged with farmers' ill treatment of such convict laborers, the Department of Prisons admits: "Abuses happen." In addition to ordinary offenses, Negroes may be sent to prison for 1) going on strike, 2) not having a pass, 3) possessing liquor, 4) "desertion." Desertion means taking a job and then leaving it without the white employer's permission. This is an offense under the "Masters and Servants Act." Most offenders...
...last month, a convict, just released from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, told a Dallas cop the hottest rumor from the prison grapevine: a certain party was offering $50,000 for the assassination of a husky, dark-eyed Dallas gambler named Herbert Noble. The stoolie confided: "They say that this man will buy you a new suit of clothes, give you some running money, a gun or dynamite if you want it, and pay you off when...
When Herbert Noble heard the convict's report, he said: "They're after me again." In six years he had survived ten attempts on his life; he was certain that "it was only a matter of time," and had long since made his own funeral arrangements...
...Secret of Convict Lake (20th Century-Fox) leads five escaped convicts through a mountain blizzard and into an isolated valley inhabited only by the womenfolk and children of some absent gold prospectors. In this suspenseful setting for a war between the sexes, the women at first have the advantage of guns, mobility and an able, if ailing, leader in Ethel Barrymore. Restricted to a single cabin and kept indoors by the threat of a well-handled rifle, the convicts use the sickness of one of their number, a fire in a stable and the way of a man with...
...after this promising start, Convict Lake turns into a routine western, with Convict Glenn Ford gunning for the man who framed him and being reformed by the love of a good woman (Gene Tierney). When the prospectors come back over the mountain, the stage is set for a good deal of indiscriminate bloodletting during which Ford gets his man and inherits his girl, and one of the convicts, Rapist Richard Hylton, is pitchforked to death by the aroused women...