Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yerovda Jail near Poona, in a cell not far from the one which houses the sainted person of Mahatma Gandhi, one day last week sat another Nationalist leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had shouted ran off for a club while Prisoner Bhopatkar was left alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed...
...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...
...refused to see Miss Walsh (his comment: "The hell with her") ; but to the end he supplied a certain amount of drama of his own kind. He bade a friendly farewell to the warden whose broken wrist was in a sling. Said he: "Gee, I feel sorry for you." (The warden, for the first time in his twelve years administration, did not attend the execution.) He walked grinning to the chair, told one of the guards that one of the electrodes against his leg did not seem tight enough, and he died...
...many a stampede when "all you can do is ride blind and hope to Christ." At 19 he joined the cavalry to fight Apaches; marched through the 800-mi. prairie fire of 1889. After rough riding with Roosevelt in Cuba, he became captain of the Arizona Rangers, finally penitentiary warden at Yuma (1907). All in all he calls it "a pretty good old life. Bullwhacking, cowpunching, soldiering, border ranging, she's been a grand old pasear...
Elected. John William Davis, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate: to the vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. John in Lattingtown. L. I. Senior warden: John Pierpont Morgan...