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Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
Added to the fact that Illinois' reigning Democrats are split internally, this unsavory affray threatened to raise a scandal at Stateville equal to the one created two years ago by revelations of vice and perversion at New York City's Welfare Island Prison (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Even non-partisan citizens wondered if it were customary at Stateville to pamper wealthy prisoners, place perverts in positions of authority...
Warden Joseph Ragen blamed it all on his predecessor who, he said, ran the institution so badly that upon his departure "two buckets full of knives" were collected from the cells. As to perversion. Warden Ragen declared by radio: "There's always such things in prison and always will be. . . What can we do?" Chicago's Mayor Kelly, out for Governor Horner's scalp, replied: "There should be more watchfulness on the Dart of the guards , The minds of the prisoners should be kept on a healthy plane...
...Court grave, tee- totaling, confidence-inspiring U. S. insurance, banking & real estate Tycoon Frank Jay Raven, founder of the famed "Raven Interests," which once boasted assets of $70,000,000 (TIME, June 17), had just been convicted of embezzlement on seven counts and sentenced to five years in prison at McNeil Island, Wash...
...exhibition of his brilliantly colored little figures in Manhattan's Arden Gallery without a single critic recording the fact that that round-faced swart young man is a direct descendant of the patron saint of Mexico's independence, fiery Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who captured the Spanish prison of Dolores in 1810, declared Mexican independence, prematurely, and got himself imprisoned and shot for his pains...