Word: warden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your order of so called suspension has reached me and amused me very much"--Warden Tynan to Governor C. T. Morley of Colorado...
...thanks to able Warden Snook for enclosing with his report the Christmas copy of Good Words, a magazine published monthly at his penitentiary "with the approval of the Department of Justice." Excerpts...
...Your order of so-called suspension has reached me and amused me very much," telegraphed the warden of the state penitentiary at Canon City, Col., to Gov. Clarence J. Morley last week. Then the warden (Thomas J. Tynan by name) stationed machine guns and armed guards on his prison walls. No one dared enter to serve suspension papers on Warden Tynan. Said he: "You can say for me-and I don't mean maybe-that anyone trying to break into this prison will get the same dose as anyone trying to break out." Jesting friends of Governor Morley took...
Governor Morley charges Warden Tynan with incompetence, in- human treatment of convicts, insubordination and drunkenness. The Warden replies that the Governor is a Klansman and wants to parole or pardon most of his convicts. The two officials have been snarling at each other for two years. Governor Morley went out of office last week in favor of Governor Adams; Warden Tynan was not grieved...
...Borrowed from Sir Warden Chilcott...