Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the bleak concrete walls of California's San Quentin state prison, a Death Row guard handed a brief note, signed by the warden, to the pale, heavy-browed prisoner in Cell 2455. "Dear Sir," it began...
...Death Row Prisoner Caryl Chessman still had a lot of life ahead of him. In the eight years since he read the warden's note, Convict Chessman, 38, has written four books, survived eight different execution dates, outlived the judge who sentenced him to death, and become the world's most famous prisoner, center of impassioned arguments on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week, with Chessman scheduled to die in San Quentin's green octagonal gas chamber next May 2 (execution date No. 9), the California legislature met in Sacramento in a special session called...
...January, Sir Maurice Bowra. 61, warden of Wadham College, author of The Greek Experience, and acting vice chancellor, called a meeting of all "heads of colleges and permanent private halls." The meeting (36 colleges, five of them women's) went down as smoothly as a glass of old port. There was talk of Lord Salisbury, but he, it turned out, had won only a "pass" and not a "first" degree. Lord Attlee had at least been a "second," but at 77 he was getting on. Then someone mentioned the name of tall, suave Sir Oliver Franks, 55, onetime professor...
...Brown, who in hours-long solitude had been agonizing over the Chessman case, Rubottom's wire came as from "the hand of God." The Governor quickly got on the direct phone line to San Quentin Prison on San Francisco Bay, talked to Warden Fred Dickson. Said the warden: "I am at the cell with the condemned man." Ordered Governor Brown: "Well, you can send him back upstairs. I am granting him a 60-day reprieve." In his "holding cell," only 15 paces and ten hours from death in the gas chamber, hawk-nosed Convict Caryl Whittier Chessman, 38, self...
Died. Margaret Mary Emerson, 75, Bromo-Seltzer heiress who kept high society agog with her array of rich husbands: 1) Smith Hollins McKim, a physician; 2) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who went down with the Lusitania; 3) Raymond T. Baker, a Nevada prison warden who became director of the Mint; 4) Charles Minot Amory, a playboy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...