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...suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall its audiences, enrich its producers and remind Hollywood that U. S. history, no less...
...Warden Joseph Ragen blamed it all on his predecessor who, he said, ran the institution so badly that upon his departure "two buckets full of knives" were collected from the cells. As to perversion. Warden Ragen declared by radio: "There's always such things in prison and always will be. . . What can we do?" Chicago's Mayor Kelly, out for Governor Horner's scalp, replied: "There should be more watchfulness on the Dart of the guards , The minds of the prisoners should be kept on a healthy plane...
...police turned all comers away from the cemetery. Thereupon a rumor swept through the city that Loeb had not been killed at all, that the whole tale of murder and burial was a fabrication by which his family had at last bought his way to freedom. That made Warden Ragen laugh. Said he: "You don't need to worry any more about Loeb...
Thence, by the warden's office who after these many years still thinks I be one of the maintenance department; and thence into the main corridor which so early in the morning is colored in many stained lights; and beautiful it is! Whereupon, no sooner out the door I was much surprised to meet Mr. Durant and was sore at my heart lest he come for the rent; but no, he did come only to see how the workman progressed...
...years before Tom Mooney went to jail, a farmer of Waterford, Conn. shot a golden eagle which had been raiding his chicken-run. The bird was only winged and the farmer took it to State Tree Warden Henry Fuller, who turned it over to Elmer Kenerson, New London's husky Superintendent of Parks. An animal-lover who knew something about veterinary science, Elmer Kenerson set the big bird's pinion, named it "Uncle Sam," built it a wooden cage 30 ft. high and 20 ft. wide around a tree in New London's wildish Riverside Park beside...