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...tiny, heat-sodden office building of the Cartersville (Ga.) State Prison camp sat Warden Arthur W. Clay: a stocky, tight-lipped man with hair clipped high about his ears, his white shirt open at the neck, his wash trousers hitched up above the garterless white socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Through the office passed a long line of convicts in stripes, to testify for the visiting members of a special legislative committee. The testimony might have made impassive Warden Clay squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Convicts are put in leg picks-two-foot iron bars locked over an ankle-for trying to escape, for failing to call Warden Clay "Captain," for no reason at all. The picks stay on night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Warden John Atkins' big night had come. He phoned the FBI in Oklahoma City, sent the Adjutant General a cool wire: "Boise City bombed one A.M. Baptist Clurch, garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Bombing of Boise City | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Twelve hours before the trap was to be sprung, the President commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Argued Humanitarian Roosevelt: there are different qualities of treason. Stephan's was a low degree of treason, it was not preconceived. Warden Cecil J. Shuttleworth told once-tough Nazi Stephan. He kissed the warden's hands, hugged his lawyers, kissing and crying and laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spared | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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