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...impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
...time Gettle was rescued, the three confessed and pleaded guilty to escape a death sentence, possible under California law because Gettle was bruised in a fall off a wall during the kidnapping. The brief history of their undoing consumed less than 24 hours (see p. 50). Said Lifer Williams as he entered San Quentin...
...depend but little on the crime he was incarcerated for, but more importantly on his home environment, his habits, and his character. Thus to herd in one ensemble first offenders, murderers, and speeders results merely in inoculating all with the anti-social virus of the most experienced and hardened lifer. The first necessity is segregation, according to possibilities of cure, for crime is largely a disease. Men with appendicitis are not placed in contagion-bearing wards...
...sent six persons to the penitentiary for life as four-time violators of the State Prohibition Act. Last week Governor Fred Green, as an act of executive mercy, commuted the sentences of five of the six prisoners, to terms of seven-and-a-half-to-15 years. The sixth lifer had already committed suicide...
Behind the last barricade one Steven Pawlak, lifer, stood up. "Go to hell," he snarled. Troopers crossed the barricade after the last wooden-sounding machine gun volley. They found all the last six rebels dead in a pile. Warden Jennings, dragged to safety when the convicts charged the gate, was dizzy from gas and a clubbing but all right. Nine guards and convicts had been killed, many others injured. After the break Governor Roosevelt said: "We have three commissions working on the problem now. I would name a fourth if it would do any good." He announced that seven captured...