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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With best regards, believe me JOHN W. SNOOK Warden United States Penitentiary Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tschaikowsky, Heflin | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...cattle ranch all right but to say he is a prison warden at Salmon, Idaho, is rather amusing because it is a little town far into the mountains and the only penal institution of which it might boast is a little two-by-four jail. Salmon is a county seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...facts are that he was warden of the Idaho state penitentiary at Boise, several hundred miles from Salmon, four consecutive two-year terms from 1900 to 1909. Again, in 1924, he was called to the wardenship of the institution but had served only a year when he accepted a call to the wardenship of the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...warden had the box on his desk. He showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcosan | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Joliet, Ill., seven convicts in the Stateville penitentiary (four of them were already murderers, one of them was only 19, three of them were Mexicans) talked feverishly together. Why not be free? Part of it was easy-they had a crowbar and several pairs of scissors. Deputy Warden Peter N. Klein resisted them. Convict Duchowski, who had killed a Chicago policeman, broke the Warden's skull with the crowbar; others stabbed him with their scissors. One thing remained. They must help Nathan F. Leopold Jr., the boy who killed for a thrill, escape with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Six for One | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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