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...Waupun's hospital when Inmate Thomas Votcas upset his night bucket attendants decided to "housebreak" him. One bound and sat on him while another seized his ears, bumped and rubbed his face in the muck. When his face was bleeding and thoroughly besmirched they tossed him on a cot and went away...
Died. William Maxwell, 88, "oldest convict in the world"; in the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun. Fifty-five years ago, aged 33, he defended a woman's good name by killing a dance-hall roisterer. Other roisterers, irate, hung Mr. Maxwell to a tall tree. Forthwith, a sheriff arrived, cut him down, took him to jail. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; refused several offers of parole...
...Waupun, Wis., speeches were made, presents given, and an old man stood up to thank his friends for remembering him. He, one William Maxwell, 88, had completed his fifty-fourth year in the State penitentiary. He once killed a man in a saloon brawl...