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...dawn on Sunday the prison siren hooted across the moor. Convicts had broken into the warden's office and attempted to steal the keys. Every man in Princetown, the little village under the prison walls, was given a rifle and posted near the jail. The central cell block roared up in flames, the clock tower fell. Guards with riot guns stood on ladders and popped at every cropped head that showed above the parapet...
...During the War of 1812 Dartmoor Prison held some 2,000 U. S. sailors impressed from merchant and naval ships who preferred prison rather than serving against the U. S. They too had no sugar on their porridge. On April 6, 1815 they struck. Guards killed six. In memory of them is a stained glass window in the prison chapel...
Adam Had Two Sons finds good Actor Paul Kelly (Bad Girl) in bad company. He and his brother have escaped from a California prison to Panama. There they fall in love with one Teresa (Raquel Torres, one of the cinema's Mexican girls). Follows some shooting, a flight by boat, fraternal sacrifice and, after two hours, the blessed surcease of a final curtain...
...energetic was Hearst's evening Journal. It tried to engineer a last-minute visit of Helen Walsh, the girl friend, to the death house; it assigned seven reporters and photographers to the story and ballyhooed it with a radio broadcast by the city editor. Other newsmen at the prison called the proceedings ''The Journal's execution...
...Graphic explained its "composograph" (a famed old Graphic device which had fallen into disuse during Publisher Macfadden's absence) in a subsequent issue: "It is a prison rule that no cameras are allowed in the execution chamber. The Graphic's editors would not wish to print the actual photograph of the execution in any event." But the Graphic's editors did their best to make the full-page picture look as much as possible like a repetition of the Daily News's exploit of printing an actual photograph of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair...