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...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, a bright, brown-eyed Michigan lad with good schooling and a job, seemed headed in the right direction. Then, one night in 1933, he went dead wrong. With his big brother and two other fellows, he kidnapped and robbed a Detroit man named Joseph Nesbitt, watched one of the gang shoot the victim and leave him to die by the roadside...
...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, now Convict No. 34,234 in Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, still has considerable time to serve. He got life for the murder, 45 to 90 years for the kidnapping. The judge said the sentences were to run concurrently. If he keeps out of trouble, and if, somehow, the life sentence should be commuted, Louis Whitsitt might be let out by 1950, or anyway...
...hopeful young Lifer Whitsitt has been an exemplary prisoner. Three years ago his excellent behavior got him a break. He was allowed to sell a story he had written of life in prison. Then he began to talk prison officials into letting him ghostwrite crime articles for them. Last month he earned $145 that...
...young Lifer Whitsitt's chief pastime is broadcasting. For the last three years he has been Jackson prison's official newscaster, reporting daily prison news and gossip to 4,100 of the 5,440 inmates over the prison's elaborate cell-to-cell hookup...
...years ago in Decatur, Tex., Joseph Fort Newton was brought up a Baptist. At Louisville's Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he rebelled against the dogma that there had been an unbroken line of Baptists from apostolic times to the present. The Seminary's president, Dr. William Heth Whitsitt also rebelled and was deemed a heretic. Student Newton spent one more year as a Baptist, then became an independent. In 1916 he was called to the famed City Temple ("Cathedral of Non-Conformity") in London. In three years he went through 28 air raids, preached many a forthright liberal...