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...play contest sponsored by the Allied Authors of New York went a script written by Convict No. 59727 of San Quentin Prison. Though burdened with four different titles, it was minus part of Act I. Cause: prison censorship. Author's explanation of cause: "It was a love scene and may have been considered rough...
...Murphy also called every convict into chambers and privately told him in advance what his sentence would...
...Convict Richard Whitney, Groton and Harvard graduate who has been teaching visual education* at Sing Sing, asked for a different job because he was vexed by the backwardness of his pupils, most of whom never finished grade school...
...State's star witness against Defendant Carroll was Convict Dwyer, now 19, more pasty-faced than ever after eight months in a cell. On the basis of his sixth confession, a 17-page horror story told with flashes of incongruous drugstore wit, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls had reopened a closed case. The story: Barbara had told Dwyer of relations with her father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine...
Called to the stand to substantiate his story, Convict Dwyer first collapsed. Next day he took the stand, cocky and glib. When defense lawyers asked him what had happened to Mrs. Littlefield, who was not mentioned in the Carroll indictment, young Dwyer replied that Carroll had strangled her with Dwyer's belt in a remote spot in the hills. "I turned my face away," said Paul Dwyer...