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...Folsom, Calif., where on Thanksgiving Day 1927, ten convicts and a guard were killed rioting, Warden Clarence A. Larkin of California's toughest State prison, was last fortnight interviewing inmates about parole applications. Suddenly seven of some 40 convicts in his office sprang out of line, bared knives and a dummy pistol. One demanded that Warden Larkin telephone the watch tower guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff...
Green Harvard Chase Springfield Gymnasts out back Hall this afternoon. For Landis sake, how they expect to Folsom with Daughters Nee without Burnett Booth hands. What the Hallet! In Boston pious Pope make big Oakes Foley Downes for such Kevorkians. Me Klein think Springfield get plenty Struck which Cheever team they Gibbs...
Freed. Writer Ernest C. Booth, 39, from Folsom Prison, after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif...
...father was Mike Whalen, an Irish contractor who never got very far in the world, but who named his son Grover because the lad was born June 2, 1886, the day that one of New York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany's candidate to succeed the previous Fusion mayor, John Purroy Mitchell. Soon Whalen blossomed out as commissioner of plant & structures...
William M. Beaney, Jr.; William C. Beckert; David W. Bensley; Lester D. Berger, Jr.; William T. Bolger; David M. Burch; Henry B. Caldwell; Charles M. Clark, Jr.; Roger A. Derby, Jr.; Henry G. Doyle, Jr.; George M. Firestone; John C. Folsom; Richard W. Forbes; Arthur B. Glidden, Jr.; Edwin L. Goldwasser; Herbert J. Goodman; Robert S. Gorham; Theodore A. Granger; Moses D. Hallett; Phillips Hallowell; William C. W. Haynes; Robert L. Heilbroner; William E. Hinchliff; Sherman Hoar; George W. Holtzlander; 'Paul E. Himan, Jr.; Walter E. Jenkins, Jr.; Stanley H. Kapner; Bartow Kelly; Walter N. Kernan, 2d.; John A. King...