Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performing his stunt again last week, Migon convinced even Warden Chester Fordney, who had been sure the Herald-American's picture was a retoucher's phony. The Hearst paper explained that taking the picture had not been merely a ghoulish, sensational trick. It had actually, it said piously, been an act of purest public service. Migon's exploit, cried the Herald-American, proved that the jail's detection system "is NOT fool proof." If "guns and saws COULD BE SMUGGLED" into jail the same way, there might be "A WHOLESALE BREAK BY PRISONERS...
...public interest would be better served ... by the granting of probation to an old and broken man," said the appeal. The court gave the government a week to reply, and Andy May and the Garsson brothers had won at least one more postponement of their date with the warden...
...defensive line, from left to right, consisted of Stretch Mazzone, Howie Boston, Sam Butler, Will Davis, and Pete Leavitt. The second line included Fred Ravreby, Dick Guidera, Bill Rosenau, Doug Bradice, and Bobby Ray. The backers-up were first Phil Isenberg, Paul O'Brien, and West; then Dave Warden, Jerry Kanter, and Chuck Glynn...
...eyes and spotless white gloves on his hands, sat at the defendant's right. Every day as the session opened, the officer stopped before the judges' bench and formally reported that the accused was present in the court. Last week, Lieutenant of Prison Guards Imre Szipzr, 32, warden of the Marko Street House of Detention in Budapest, was himself in the prisoner's dock before a Budapest criminal court. He was under charges, together with six subordinates, of having accepted bribes from relatives of prisoners under his charge...
...fixing the roof of the police station. In Jefferson City, Mo., Willard Drayton, a tower guard at the state penitentiary, was found to be a parole violator from California. In Salt Lake City, Escaped Convict Allen J. Carbis, returning to the Utah State Prison after voluntarily calling up the warden to say "I'm coming home," explained: "I had no right as a man or a convict to let him down that...