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From the window of his office in the State Penitentiary at Columbia, S. C, Prison Guard Captain Olin Sanders last week shouted to Corporal Charles L. Christmus on duty in the yard below...
...These boys" were six convicts who had trapped unarmed Captain Sanders in his office. Since Captain Sanders had given instructions to disregard any order he might give under such circumstances, Corporal Christmus called Prison Superintendent J. S. Wilson. Colonel Wilson called South Carolina's 41-year-old Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, who hurried to the prison. Toward the window of Captain Sanders' office marched the Governor with his hands deep in his overcoat pockets...
Half-a-dozen gas grenades arched through the window. A moment later six licked convicts stumbled out, but Captain Sanders was not with them. Guardsmen found him on the floor of his office in a pool of blood, covered with fresh stab wounds. A few minutes later in the prison hospital. Captain Sanders died...
...very close contest, the Crimson debaters vanquished the Norfolk Prison team 416 396 last night at the Colony; taking the negative side of the question; "Resolved: That N. L. R. B. Should be Empowered to Enforce Arbitration of all Industrial Disputes...
Attendance at the debate was voluntary; 500 convicts showing up for the proceedings. During the intermission, the Prison swing orchestra played with a Negro accordionist stealing the show...