Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howard B. Gill '13, who has withdrawn as superintendent of Norfolk Prison, will speak at a meeting to be held next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in Brattle Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to inform the public about the Norfolk Prison Plan. It will be sponsored by Dr. Richard Cabot '89, Professor of Social Ethics and Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, of the Harvard Medical School, John R. P. French '04, Headmaster of the Cambridge School, C. J. Friedrich, Associate Professor of Government, Reverend Leslie Glenn of Christ Church, A. N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government. Dean Clarence Skinner...
...released and the convicts drove off with her in the direction of the Osage Hills-presumably to hide with the Texas fugitives. One other Lansing fugitive, Charles Clifton McArthur, burglar and murderer, was captured as he entered Kansas City on a trolley car, having walked 35 miles from the prison with an ankle bone fractured in the jump from the wall. Bob Brady was shot and killed by a posse near Paola, Kans...
...Leavenworth Prison, Kans., Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
...University was born in Christiansand, Norway 44 years ago, son of a steamship captain. At 16 Try. Narvesen migrated to the U. S., bustled through Minneapolis' Augsburg College, joined up with the Y. M. C. A. He learned that education can do without money at a War prison camp near Salt Lake City, which he turned into a makeshift "college" with smart internes as instructors. In Lansing he be longs to the Rotary Club, works hard for inter-class brotherhood, begins every day at 6:30 a. m. by hiking 40 minutes with his husky Norwegian wife...
...indictments not only against five Orthodox bishops but also against the highest prelate in the church, heavy-bearded Archbishop Djonizy (Dionitius) Waledynski. "Your Grace," cried the District Attorney, "I accuse you of abusing your legal powers!" For such abuse the Archbishop faced a possible sentence of five years in prison...