Word: snook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prison responsibilities. Though wardens' reports had reiterated figures on overcrowding, the only Federal prison reform of recent years was when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assistant Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily...
Last June at Columbus, Dr. James Howard Snook, 49, professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University, quarreled with Theora Hix, 24, coed. For three years they had loved surreptitiously, Dr. Snook plying her with aphrodisiacs...
Their quarrel arose because Miss Hix was jealous of his wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them...
Last week Mrs. Willebrandt called for the resignation of Warren Snook in 30 days "because of utter want of administrative ability." The warden had announced that he was prepared to depart from the U. S. service and return to his Idaho ranch unless Mrs. Willebrandt ceased sending snoopers. Mr. Snook promptly sent forward his resignation, not to Mrs. Wille brandt, but to Attorney General Mitchell...
Indignant, the Department of Justice denied that snooping had anything to do with the Snook ouster...