Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, Warden Clinton Duffy was told that a committee of convicts requested an interview. The committee filed into his office, stated their request: that one of them should die in the Duchess' place. They handed the warden a solemn petition...
Inspired by tales of women helping to defend Russia, Mrs. Edward Frederick Boultbee, the wife of an air-raid warden in the village of Attleborough, Norfolk, last week edged up to an "invading" tank in British Army maneuvers, popped a rock into the open turret...
Charges: he "frequently went to prison camps of Fulton County with pardons already signed and asked to see prisoners whom he did not know and who did not know him. . . . Henry Wilburn was serving a life sentence for murder. . . . Wilburn said [to Chandler] the warden had $50 of his and he would be glad to pay that much. This was acceptable to Chandler." The jury reported: "Henry Wilburn, the one who was serving life for murder, is free today at a cost of $50 [paid] to the Governor's chauffeur...
After 21 years in Sing Sing, Warden Lewis E. Lawes this week announced that, like most of the prison's inmates, he now wanted to retire, "to devote myself to many causes which have long interested me." Among them will be more sound books (20,000 Years in Sing Sing) and articles on penology, perhaps a university job, social-service work among boys...
...noxious duty Mr. Lawes will escape is witnessing the execution of two prisoners whose attempted escape last April was the first violent outbreak at Sing Sing since 1920. Required by law to witness executions, but a lifelong enemy of capital punishment, the Warden always turned his head, bowed it at the last moment...