Word: mott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personage dies at an awkward hour, if the announcement reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch filler on the front page -was headlined simply...
...THOMAS MOTT OSBORN DEAD IN FLORIDA...
What difference, after all, did it make where the editor printed that line about the bass and the Indian dances? Anyone but a fool could see that bass and Indian dances had nothing to do with the death of a famous man like Thomas Mott Osborne. Fortifying, with this reflection, their faith in the infallibility of their chosen newspaper, subscribers of the Boston Herald read...
...PETERSBURG, Fla., May 13 (AP) - Thomas Mott Osborn, 80, for more than a quarter of a century warden of Sing Sing prison, N. Y., died here late today. He had been ill for several weeks...
...Thomas Mott Osborne was not 80 years...