Word: pedrini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Napa, Calif., two sheriff's deputies, a judge and the mother and mother-in-law of Paroled Murderer Frank Pedrini waited, armed and in mortal fear of Pedrini, a 46-year-old badman, who was on the rampage again. Pedrini did his first prison stretch for armed robbery at the age of 21. He was paroled in 1935. Three months later, with another paroled convict, he kicked and beat a Napa gas-station operator to death; then, after fighting a gun battle with Napa County deputies, he blazed a trail of kidnapings and holdups from Los Angeles to Stockton...
...even though he had escaped from Folsom Prison during his term, and committed new crimes before being caught, and even though his own mother, afraid of her son, pleaded against his release-Pedrini was paroled. Last month, after pistol-whipping and robbing another gas-station operator, Pedrini began running wild in neighboring Sonora County...
Chairman Walter A. Gordon of California's Adult Authority explained why Pedrini had been paroled. "Sometimes you judge wrongly. You can't tell that a man'll go sour like Pedrini. But murderers have our best parole records, and we take into consideration the best measurements of the human mind now available. I don't wish to minimize the fear and apprehension of those whose lives have been threatened . . . but men who make such threats under the heat and strain of a courtroom rarely carry them out." Pedrini's potential victims could only hope...