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Accused of at least 165 burglaries in Harvard halls and surrounding parts of Cambridge, James McLeod, 28, a former convict, was returned from New York to the East Cambridge jail this week...
Knocking Fortune. In Coyote, N. Mex., Escaped Convict Leslie Oatis rapped on a door to ask for a drink of water, found he had chosen the home of the deputy sheriff who was searching...
Vocational Training. In Virginia's state penitentiary, Warden Frank Smyth, who had been encouraging inmates to study practical subjects, rejected as too practical one convict's request for a course in key-making...
...decades later Dr. Stanley finally got the up-to-date, four-story hospital San Quentin boasts today. Over the years he had also brought a new standard of medical care to the convicts. Stanley began using spinal anesthesia (which he could administer unaided) long before most doctors, because the prison anesthetist (a convict) was a drunkard who habitually drank up all the medical alcohol in the surgery...
...Warm." Another doggedly uncommunicative witness was a sullen, gum-chewing ex-convict, Anthony Lopiparo, a pinball-machine entrepreneur. At first Tony wouldn't even tell the committee whether he had ever visited Tijuana, Mexico (where, rumor had it, the murder of Kansas City's Charles Binaggio was plotted). "I stand on my constitutional rights," he muttered. "Haven't I got a Constitution?" Finally, however, Tony broke down and confessed. "I like it down there," said he. "It's warm...