Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warden Court Smith was beleaguered in his office. To reach the prison wall, he would have to cross a bald courtyard under whatever fire the convicts might loose. He telephoned to Governor Clement Calhoun Young in Sacramento, 25 miles away, to send over soldiers, bombs, artillery. He ordered all available riflemen to the prison wall and consulted with aides whether to starve out the revolt or crush it at once...
...having. The convicts returned the fire with their one gun, injuring only one attacker. Seeing that they needed heavier weapons to batter in the cellhouse doors, police and militia withdrew to await the arrival of tanks, airplanes, one-pounders. Snipers watched the cellhouse windows the rest of the afternoon. Warden Smith, who safely left and returned to his office after dark, warned the prisoners that he could flood the cellhouse and drown them all. He offered to let them march out in peaceable surrender. They refused...
...Reverend John Roach Straton D. D. of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, noted fundamentalist and exponent of divine healing, will debate at the Union next Tuesday instead of Warden L. E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison, as previously announced...
...Lawes has long been warden at Sing Sing, where his enlightened policy of leniency and prison reform has been largely responsible for raising the standards of justice in New York State...
...have not yet been chosen, but it is believed that Senator Baumes, author of the Baumes Criminal Law now in effect in New York State, has been invited to take part in the discussion. If he is unable to come, another authority on Criminology will be secured to oppose Warden Lawes, who is against the practice of capital punishment for crime...