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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...