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...Folsom, Calif., where on Thanksgiving Day 1927, ten convicts and a guard were killed rioting, Warden Clarence A. Larkin of California's toughest State prison, was last fortnight interviewing inmates about parole applications. Suddenly seven of some 40 convicts in his office sprang out of line, bared knives and a dummy pistol. One demanded that Warden Larkin telephone the watch tower guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff...
...pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly out of key, but approved in script form by Gorki before his death in 1936, has Pepel mysteriously out of prison walking hand in hand with Natacha down a country road, silhouetted as radiantly as any triumphant Hollywood couple...
...Badman Capone's barricaded tate at Palm Island, Miami, Florida, was tout to be sold when the Internal Revenue Collector J. Edwin Larsen announced at in Chicago the remaining $17,194 in arrears had been paid, delinquencies which used Badman Capone to be sentenced to eleven years in prison...
Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley last July refused to extradite an escaped Georgia chain-gang convict who had been caught running a Boston lottery. He added insult to injury by giving as his reason that Georgia's prison system was inhumane. Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers last week had his chance for revenge. Lawyers for a Negro barber named Fleming ("Sing") Willis, who had served less than a month of a ten months' sentence for operating an Atlanta lottery, applied for a parole: "Applicant feels that the attitude of Governor Hurley of Massachusetts towards those...
Next day, when Governor Rivers got applications for six more paroles on the same conditions, two from burglars and four from life-term murderers, it gave him a chance to continue in the same vein: ". . . Governor Hurley may have solved our prison problem for us. . . . We may not have to keep anyone in our chain gangs under the conditions he [Hurley] complained about." Informed that chain-gang camps had been placarded with signs saying, "Spend your holiday in Cape Cod," Governor Rivers grinned. He announced that July 27-the day Governor Hurley refused to extradite the escaped convict-would henceforth...