WHERE PRISONERS DAREN’T
TALK

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ALCATRAZ ISLAND stands in the mid-
dle of San Francisco Bay. White cliffs rise
sheer to a height of sixty feet from the
water's edge, and atop of them stands the
worst prison in the world—a prison that
even the roughest and toughest of American
crooks fear.

There are no locks or bolts on the doors.
Everything is worked by electricity, con’
trolled by the warders. To avoid any
trouble, there are mirrors fitted all over

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the prison so that the guards can actually
cee around corners.

It was here that Al Capone was brought
when charged with evading income tax.
As you all know, this prison broke even
Al’s spirit, and he was a tough lad. No,
he wasn’t beaten and ill-treated. On the
contrary, he was allowed to read all the
latest magazines and newspapers; receive
the choicest cigars sent to him by his friends
and hangers-on. Crooks at this queer gaol
are beaten by silence. Not a word is uttered.
Everybody goes about his job without speak-
ing. To break this rule means trouble—
and the prisoners, knowing what kind of
trouble to expect, behave themselves!

While Capone was in this prison of the
living dead his mother, who came to visit
him, was concerned in an unusual incident.

Before a visitor is allowed to see a
prisoner he or she has to pass in front of
an electro-magnetic eye. This machine
actually registers the amount of metal the
visitor is carrying, for the police know
that some of the visitors are tough guys who
would probably try to smuggle a gun to
their friends.

Anyway, when the time came for the
elderly Mrs. Capone to step in front of the
machine, the needle pumped so much that
every official -ecame suspicious, and two
women warders took Mrs. Capone away to
search her.

What a shock—and a laugh—they had
when the lady warders reported that Mrs.
Capone had no gun on her. It was her
corsets that had caused all the trouble!

HIS PLACE
SISTER SMITH was called upon for testi-

mony at a revival meeting. She humbly
declined in these words: “I have been a
transgressor and a black sheep for a good
many years, and have only recently seen
the light. I believe that my place is in a
dark corner behind the door.”

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Brother Jones was next called upon. Fol —
lowing Sister Smith’s meek example, he
caid: “I, too, have been a sinner for more
than forty years, and I do not think that —

I ought to stand before you as a model.

I think my place is beh‘nd the door, in a

dark corner, with Sister Smith.”

ALL FIVE WERE KILLED

FIVE policemen—three specials and two :
regulars—were patrolling a Coventry, Eng ~
land, street when a bomb was heard falling. ©

The three specials threw
down. The two regulars fell on top of
them, trying to shield them. But the bomb
fell almost directly on them ,and all were

killed.

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