Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The execution of an extensive plan for the beautification of the District of Columbia is in the hands of this Commission. F. A. Delano '85, during the current year President of the Harvard Alumni Association, is Chairman of the Commission, and C. W. Eliot, 2nd '20, grandson of the late...
"Public attention should also be constantly called to the economic side of the liquor business. While we stir the moral sense we ought also to arouse the financial sense of the burden bearers of the business world. The care for the dissipated criminal classes, spawned upon society by this ruinous...
"The quickest way to get out of Sing Sing is to come in as warden," was the saying in those days. Warden Lawes has stayed twelve years. In that time he has built a new prison, developed sports, introduced, among other things, a flower garden, even a bird house; organized...
The Mouthpiece (Warner), adapted from an unproduced play by Frank J. Collins, is about a lawyer who had good reason to defend criminals for his livelihood. As assistant district attorney, Vincent Day convicts an innocent man for murder and is unable, when he learns of his mistake, to stop the...
...decides to resign his post. On the execution morning arrives His Majesty's Inspector of Prisons to oversee the hanging. Kent, in charge until his resignation has been accepted, refuses to proceed. Eight o'clock, the scheduled hour, ticks by. The Inspector telephones London for authority, tells the executioner to stand by. At 8:06 the House Office telephones Kent. Prisoner Jones has been reprieved...