Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guards and marched them back to the punishment cells to set free their comrades. They had sent a message to Warden Jennings and he was there now, manacled and trembling, a white-haired man with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers at the main gate, where the siren was screaming, had received their ultimatum, a soiled paper across which was scrawled "For God's sake, give them what they want," followed by Warden Jennings' signature. The priest's advent was an accident...
...keeper named David Winney had dodged the bullets by falling down and rolling through a doorway. He had sent the alarm to the gate by the only telephone the conspirators had overlooked when they were cutting wires. Now at the gate Captain Stephen McGrath, State trooper, held Sullivan's ultimatum between his fists, wondering how he could take the responsibility of ignoring that scrawled postscript signed with Warden Jennings' name...
...Even Convict Sullivan believed that message when the priest brought it back. Possibly McGrath apologized to Cleary afterward for using him that...
Vignettes of blood on snow: a man in a guard's blue jacket and reefer, his long, impassive face, with its heavy eyebrows, oblique eyes, long upper lip and thin mouth pushed into the ground, lying dead, his head pointed toward freedom. That was Convict Sullivan in clothes he had stripped from a captured guard. He had run through the barrage of tear gas that the troopers let loose on the screaming phalanx as it advanced across the yard toward the gate holding Warden Jennings and the other hostages as a screen in front of them. He had run toward...
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