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...Warden Court Smith was beleaguered in his office. To reach the prison wall, he would have to cross a bald courtyard under whatever fire the convicts might loose. He telephoned to Governor Clement Calhoun Young in Sacramento, 25 miles away, to send over soldiers, bombs, artillery. He ordered all available riflemen to the prison wall and consulted with aides whether to starve out the revolt or crush it at once...
...Reverend John Roach Straton D. D. of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, noted fundamentalist and exponent of divine healing, will debate at the Union next Tuesday instead of Warden L. E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison, as previously announced...
...Warden L.E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison will debate on "Capital Punishment" under the auspices of the Harvard Debating Union next Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, it has just been announced...
...Lawes has long been warden at Sing Sing, where his enlightened policy of leniency and prison reform has been largely responsible for raising the standards of justice in New York State...
...have not yet been chosen, but it is believed that Senator Baumes, author of the Baumes Criminal Law now in effect in New York State, has been invited to take part in the discussion. If he is unable to come, another authority on Criminology will be secured to oppose Warden Lawes, who is against the practice of capital punishment for crime...