Word: mcgrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he tried to run. A keeper named David Winney had dodged the bullets by falling down and rolling through a doorway. He had sent the alarm to the gate by the only telephone the conspirators had overlooked when they were cutting wires. Now at the gate Captain Stephen McGrath, State trooper, held Sullivan's ultimatum between his fists, wondering how he could take the responsibility of ignoring that scrawled postscript signed with Warden Jennings' name...
From the snowy roadway, darkened in irregular patches by the parked automobiles of townspeople who had turned out to help, McGrath looked toward the wing of the grey stone block next to the warden's office, the wing where the rebels were barricaded. He could charge in all right, get across the yard to the main hall maybe, but no further. They would have the steel doors of the hall closed. He studied it until he thought of a plan, then took Father Cleary aside and talked to him. . . . Automobiles for their escape? The gate open...
...Even Convict Sullivan believed that message when the priest brought it back. Possibly McGrath apologized to Cleary afterward for using him that...
...Horton, A. W. Huguley. B. P. Hutchins, O. D. Johnson, R. H. Johnson, J. B. Karas, J. W. Kelleher, R. D. Kernan, P. A. Ketchum, R. L. Kirkpatrick, J. P. Leacacos, C. J. Liebman, Frank Lyman Jr., R. G. S. Maier, D. F. Margolies, L. K., Marquis, E. H. McGrath, W. J. Mikesh, C. T. Murphy...
...petition to the list of Junior nominees. The following men, therefore, compose the completed official list of nominees. Balloting will be by way of post card election; all Juniors will receive their ballots in tomorrow morning's mail. FOR PRESIDENT Thomas Wilson Dunn Fellowes Morgan Pruyn Edward Henry McGrath John Newlin Trainer Jr. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT Richard Chanler Aldrich John White Hallowell Emil Joseph Des Roches Edward Bernard Murphy FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER Stephen Pierce Duggan James Hopkins Smith Hiram Watson Sibley Edward Kuhn Straus