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...prisoners was to shunt old ones out as fast as they could. Meantime those remaining stirred like cattle squeezed in a ship's hold. A score had lately been sent to dungeons for riot & rebellion. Pondering their problem, the boardmen and Secretary Mark Noon adjourned to Warden James B. Holohan's house for lunch...
...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
...Sunbury, Pa., four hunters simultaneously shot at and hit the same deer In Atlanta, Ga., a game warden served a warrant on Col. W. B. Hutchinson, member of the Governor's staff, for having illegally shot five does. Col. Hutchinson claimed he had not noticed the does in the heavy underbrush, had fired at a buck, killing buck and does with one 12-pellet shotgun shell. Said he: "This has worried me for almost a month. It was purely an accident but it is far better that a judge should decide. ... I have seen a miracle...
...sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...
Having received 3,000 new books for the prison library, the warden of the Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. appointed as "literary censor" Convict Nathan Leopold who, with Richard Loeb, murdered young Bobbie Franks in 1923. Censor Leopold will expurgate "objectionable ideas...