Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley last July refused to extradite an escaped Georgia chain-gang convict who had been caught running a Boston lottery. He added insult to injury by giving as his reason that Georgia's prison system was inhumane. Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers last week had his chance for revenge. Lawyers for a Negro barber named Fleming ("Sing") Willis, who had served less than a month of a ten months' sentence for operating an Atlanta lottery, applied for a parole: "Applicant feels that the attitude of Governor Hurley of Massachusetts towards those...
Governor Rivers was gleeful. He granted the parole on condition that Barber Willis spend the next nine months in Massachusetts. Said he: "Governor Hurley seems to be in need of extra lottery operators. I am accommodating both Governor Hurley and this prisoner...
Next day, when Governor Rivers got applications for six more paroles on the same conditions, two from burglars and four from life-term murderers, it gave him a chance to continue in the same vein: ". . . Governor Hurley may have solved our prison problem for us. . . . We may not have to keep anyone in our chain gangs under the conditions he [Hurley] complained about." Informed that chain-gang camps had been placarded with signs saying, "Spend your holiday in Cape Cod," Governor Rivers grinned. He announced that July 27-the day Governor Hurley refused to extradite the escaped convict-would henceforth...
Morris E. Hurley, Jr., Berkeley, California--University High School, Oakland, California...
...Georgia, Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers dug out a "full faith and credit" Federal statute which he hopes requires other States to return Georgia's duly requisitioned criminals. To Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley Governor Rivers wrote again to recapture escaped Negro James Cunningham whose extradition was recently refused because of a "sense of humanity." Fed up with such melodramatic refusals of extradition as that by New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in 1932 in the case of Robert Elliott Moore (I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang), Georgia prepared for a legal roundup...