Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Garrod was particularly interested in the dining room, where he found a high table. "Here," he said, "not only the warden or head of the Hall, sits, but also the student heads of committees, so that the high table is composed, with the exception of the head of the Hall, entirely of undergraduates. It is a democracy of the most advanced sort...
Thus began a terrific fire in Ohio's chief prison which Warden Preston E. Thomas was sure had been started by desperate inmates to effect a wholesale delivery. A second fire was kindled mysteriously in the Catholic chapel, a third flashed up in the woolen mills. Into the prison yard poured thousands of screaming, shouting, swearing prisoners, cowed by the flames, tempted to dash for freedom. Troops, state and federal, augmented the prison guard, pricked the crazy mob into sullen obedience with bayonets. Fire chiefs threatened to let the whole penitentiary burn down unless the warden would guarantee...
...outer office of the prison matters were taken in hand by Amanda Thomas, daughter of Warden Thomas, while he carried on within the walls. Miss Thomas posted guards, distributed arms, summoned doctors, nurses, troops...
Some 45 minutes later, tottering with weakness but still resolute, Mme Hanau entered the office of the warden of St. Lazare prison from which she had been removed. "I demand to be imprisoned here," she cried, still formidable. She had escaped from the hospital by climbing down a rope of bedclothes. Nothing had prevented her from attempting to escape completely...
Hours passed. Capone did not appear. Newsmen grew restive, suspicious. There were grumblings among good citizens who had turned out to see a real "bad man." Darkness came. Finally Warden Herbert Smith announced his trick...