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...Folsom, Calif., where on Thanksgiving Day 1927, ten convicts and a guard were killed rioting, Warden Clarence A. Larkin of California's toughest State prison, was last fortnight interviewing inmates about parole applications. Suddenly seven of some 40 convicts in his office sprang out of line, bared knives and a dummy pistol. One demanded that Warden Larkin telephone the watch tower guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff...
Wondering if it were permissible to shoot ferocious screech owls, North Tarrytown police telephoned a State game warden, failed to find him at home. Few minutes later an unemployed chauffeur reported that he had been attacked by two owls at the scene of Mrs. Newell's encounter but had escaped injury by sprinting and beating at the birds with his hands. Without further concern for the law, a patrolman was sent with a shotgun to the spot, which is opposite the Pocantico Hills estate of the late John D. Rockefeller. The policeman killed one owl, was joined...
Screech owls are heavy eaters, devour great numbers of field mice, insects and other farm pests. For that reason they are protected almost everywhere in the U. S., although they occasionally eat small birds. New York State game officials admitted last week that the patrolman and the Rockefeller warden had technically violated the law by shooting the owls, but because of the circumstances seemed disinclined to take any action. None of the persons attacked could sue anyone for their hurts or their scares, since neither landowners nor governments are liable for attacks by wild animals...
There it was discovered that the assaulter was no ordinary brawler but Manuel Oyon, a onetime Venezuelan judge. The assaulted was General Jorge Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan...
...thought it a terrible thing, that the Duke should be denied what was open to any other Englishman-a religious ceremony at his wedding. . . . We dared not tell a soul except a church warden who was bound to secrecy. I believe my husband would not mind if he were forced to leave the church. We sent the servants away, closed the house and came to London...