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ELIZABETH M. THWEATT Austin, Texas...
...sins regularly. But, like most prisoners, who will do anything to get out of their cells, he also attends Protestant and Christian Science services. Last month a Baptist minister thought he saw a chance for Al Capone's soul, and plucked it forthrightly. The Rev. Silas A. Thweatt (rhymes with "bleat") of San Pedro, detailed for a service at the prison for the first time, preached straight at the gangster. His text: . . . Died Abner as a fool dieth? (II Samuel...
Later Mr. Thweatt declared: "At the close of the talk, Capone's face seemed to radiate, and when I asked those prisoners to stand who felt the need and will to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion" had taken place, no one doubted. Said Prison Warden E. J. Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd...
...Said Mr. Thweatt, slightly bitter: "If the government is going to spend so much money for a correctional institution and if the religion of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is a correctional religion, then why should the news of an inmate's accepting the religion be barred from the press and public knowledge...
...Year I wholeheartedly nominate the Honorable Martin Dies. (MRS.) ELIZABETH M. THWEATT...
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