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...swim, a little island called Alcatraz dots the broad expanse of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz means pelican. The island was used by the Spaniards as a harbor fortification. In its sandstone bowels are deep dungeons and underground passages. For years the War Department has used it as a military prison. Last week the island was transferred to the Department of Justice. Attorney General Cummings announced that its 600-cell jail would become the home of the nation's worst criminals. The plan is to move the more intractable kidnappers, murderers, thieves and racketeers out of Federal penitentiaries and isolate...
...Wendel family (see below); of heart disease; in Manhattan. As attorney for the estate of Ella Wendel, he fought so ably in court that the claims of 2,295 heirs were disallowed, nine distant relatives were paid to drop contest proceedings, a dull-witted housepainter was sent to prison for posing as Ella Wendel's nephew...
...obstacle comes up to prevent a permanent union between Clayton and Tira. The manager of her circus arranges to have one of her old admirers, just released from prison, meet Clayton in pajamas when he calls at Tira's apartment. This leads to an estrangement, a breach of promise suit by Tira. In court she leers at the jury, winks at the judge, so thoroughly embarrasses character witnesses brought in to defame her that Clayton decides not to contest the case. When he calls on Tira to say that he still loves her, he suggests that they go away...
Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...
...environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene. At 14 he ran away from home, was hobo, circus hand, cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newshawk. When he was private secretary to the Warden of Iowa's State Prison, and editing the prison magazine, one of the convicts reproved him for writing a sentimental story about a crook. Williamson took heed...