Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warden William ("Bill") Mills, one-time footballer for Temple University, onetime superintendent (1920-33) of Philadelphia's none too savory police force, denied all knowledge of how it could have happened. He declared he had been out for a jog in the woods the morning the bodies were found, could not have been more surprised. He shut himself up in his house and tried to wash his hands of the whole horrid affair. Two guards-Alfred Brough and Francis Smith-were held on homicide charges by the Coroner, who promised eight arrests of guards and "higher-ups" after...
Last week it was hot in most of the U. S. In Phoenix, Ariz, it was 108°. From Arizona State Prison, lying in well-wooded mountain country near Florence, Warden John Eager wired Governor Rawghlie Clement Stanford: "It is a situation I can no longer control." The Governor hastily sent the National Guard to build a stockade near the prison. Reason: Because of a shortage of cells 200 trusties have been sleeping outside the prison walls, 15 had escaped in six weeks, five more had just escaped. Said Warden Eager: "You can't call it an escape, exactly...
...letter in TIME, June 13, subject Browder, signed by one Burton H. Pugh; I respectfully suggest Mr. Pugh as candidate for nomination as warden of Jersey City concentration camp...
...QUENTIN PRISON, CAL-Forty convicts in three San Quentin Prison work shops went on a sitdown strike late today. It was reported the prisoners struck after a leisure privilege had been denied them. Barnett House, secretary to Warden Court Smith, said the men went on strike over a new regulation effective two days...
...Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened out rigid in death. After the gas was blown out and the pig removed, opinions remained divided. Most of the newspapermen spectators professed themselves horrified. Queasy Warden Court Smith confessed that he had turned his eyes away. But W. H. Rockingham of the State Department of Architecture, who had supervised the construction of the chamber, expressed his satisfaction, announced that he would recommend that the State accept the chamber and pay the contractors their...