Word: holohan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shunt old ones out as fast as they could. Meantime those remaining stirred like cattle squeezed in a ship's hold. A score had lately been sent to dungeons for riot & rebellion. Pondering their problem, the boardmen and Secretary Mark Noon adjourned to Warden James B. Holohan's house for lunch...
...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay seriously hurt, the convict leader died. To the shock of Boardmen Atherton, Stephens and Sykes was added chagrin when the recaptured convicts confessed that it was Clyde Stevens who had smuggled their guns into the prison. Next day on a swampy island in the Sacramento River, police caught Bandit Stevens...
...Warden Holohan was slightly disturbed by Keyes's presence among his former quarries in the courts. Fear was felt some of them might try to "get" him. Warden Holohan looked about for a special job that would be safe...
...gone," he grumbled as he entered the prison gates. Curtly, like any common thief, he was ordered to bathe, have his hair clipped short, be photographed, fingerprinted. As No. 48,218, he was put in a single cell in the "Old Men's Ward" by Warden James Holohan...