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Grotesque Practices. When Thomas Murton, Rockefeller's 39-year-old reform appointee to the prison superintendent's job, took over early in 1967, enforced homosexuality and traffic in liquor and narcotics were rampant at Tucker and the Cummins prison farm...
Trusties, armed with shotguns, were squeezing weekly payoffs out of the "rankmen," or ordinary inmates, who worked under their supervision. Often the trusties, who lived in unlocked TV-and-refrigerator-equipped shacks, fired rifles inches over rankmen's heads simply for sport. Murton quickly abolished many of the grotesque practices, but he was troubled by continuing rumors that prisoners had been murdered and buried on the prison grounds. Last week Murton ordered digging started in a treeless pasture at Cummins. Led to the site, which contained between 15 and 25 unexplained earth depressions, by strapping, 59-year-old Inmate...
Engaged. Elizabeth Murton du Pont. 20, daughter of Director Eugene E. du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., to Walter Samuel Carpenter 3d. 22. son of du Font's vice president, Walter S. Carpenter Jr.; in Wilmington...
Dedham, Mass., April 22--Murton Millen, on trial for his life, was reunited with his attractive 19-year-old bride, Norma, in Dedham jail today for the first time since his arrest in New York nearly two months...
...department, D. M. Little, Jr. Chairman of the cuts and photographs department, and H. Robb is in charge of the business end. The board is as follows: Edward Benson Benedict, of New York, N. Y; Preston Burlingham Boyden, of Winnetka, III; Alpheous Montague Geer, of Nutley, N. J; John Murton Gundry, of Cleveland, ohio; John Lavalle Jr., of Boston; David Mason Little Jr., of Salem; Phillip Newbold Rhinelands of Lawrence, L.I. N. Y,; David Lord Richardson, of Boston; Hampton Rob5, of Cleveland, ohio; and paul squibb, of Bernardsville...