Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shea go because he had been "a pretty good old plug." Daniels had offered the guards' lives as the price of free exit for himself and his four followers in the revolt which began at noon. Daniels had also demanded in repeated messages and shouted parleys that Warden Francis Eugene Crawford supply them with automobiles to drive away in. "Go to hell!" was Warden Crawford's reply each time, approved by Governor William H. Adams over the telephone from Denver. About 10 p.m., Cellhouse No. 4 caught fire, heightening the glare in the courtyard. The convicts in Cellhouse...
WIRE IMMEDIATELY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO COVER FINE AND COSTS FOR FUN HERE YESTERDAY WOULD HAVE INFORMED YOU SOONER BUT WARDEN REFUSED TO LOCATE INTERPRETER WISH YOU WERE HERE MAY I POSTPONE ARRIVAL TILL YALE GAME QUESTION MARK HUEY...
Eight days later, his bravado gone, Minister of Executions de Pineda begged to see the warden...
...Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing, who is also attending the prison congress here, said in an interview today that he is opposed to capital punishment because it does not act as a deterrent but topds rather to make heroes of criminals...
Chicago. Bernard Roa, Mexican, 16 bullet scars on back, wanted for murder. Roa broke out of Joliet prison, killed a deputy warden. Warning: "Dangerous...