Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, -1932. 4 DE LUXE TRAINS DAILY Via The Double Track — Sea Level Route Ly, WASHIAGEON Florida Special 3:30 P.M. R P, Gulf Coast Lt. flavana Specil SHIP YOUR AUTO — Total cost 5 tickets: for carand 2 passengers. Graduate el MeCormick Medlcal Giasses Fitted DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone National 0721 409-410 McLachlen Bldg., 10th_and G Sts. N.W. D I I Here’s Quick Way To Break Up a Cold . . B R MakesYou Feel Like a New Person Almost Before You Know It ~HE thing to do with & cold is to : | The President ras appointed Emil | T break it up in & hurry—with some- | District will be installed at a joint in- Killed in Fall Convict Claims Ohio Warden} Raises Pay for Slayers of Prisoners. By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio. January 15 After hearing one convict charge that Warden Preston E. Thomas “prefers killers” for guards at the Ohio Peni- | tentiary, the Ohio Senate Committee investigating alleged prison cruelties was in temporary adjournment today The testimony against the warden was given yesterday by Willlam Baron a bank robber, one of several convicts called before the committee. Alleging that several killings of pris- oners by guards had been “covered up” guard had been “attacked.” Baron said | “the guard that kills a prisoner gen- ALEXANDER McMILLAN HARVEY, erally gets his salary raised.’ A rigger on the new Standard Oil Co.! Warns Against Cruelty. Building at Second and B streets, who | it the Was killed yesterday when he fell about | 100 feet, crushing his head against a | | by making the records show that the el \ The prisoner warned that present system of brutality is not | changed the riots that followed the plank, is pictured here when he was a Easter Monday fire (1930) in which sergeant with the 151st Field Company, | 20 prisoners were burned to deat] wil. have o comparison to the next | Forces, during the World War. one. The next riot will be a sell-out, Harvey held several citations from and by that T mean & life for a life.” | the Canadian government for his World | The investigation will be resumed War service, during which he saw action | next Tuesday, at which time the com- in several major engagements mittee will delve into reports that brib- A verdict of accidental death was ery may have played a part in obtain- returned in the case by a coroner’s| ing reduced sentences for several pr Jjury at an inquest at the District oners. Morgue today. Guards -notched their blackjacks” . and ruled with an iron hand after the prison fire, witnesses said _vesterday. | HARRY HALL OLCOTT Charles C. Rickett, a construction | foreman employed in rebabilitation | DIES IN ALEXANDRIA work after the disaster, said three guards | carved notches on their blackjacks each {time they beat a prisoner and often | Member of Old Washington Fam- bragged about the number of notches. | ; i On one occasion, Rickett declared, he | 1y Returned to This Section Last saw two guards beat four prisoners over | 2 the head so severely he believed they | Spring After 20 Years. | would have been killed had not a dep- | uty warden stopped the punishment. So| _ HarTy Hall Olcott, 60, member of an | far as Rickett saw, there was no prov- | 0ld Washington family, died today in || — | ocation for the beating. an Alexandria, Va. hospital. He had | Saw Skull Crushed. lived in the Virginia city since return- | t Leonard Wood, a guard for several | ing to this vicinity last Spring after an years, asserted he saw a prisoner's 4 ; skull crushed by another guard who | &PSence of more than 20 years had threatened to “get” him. He also| Mr. Olcott was a son of Richard Gary || testified there was no apparent reason | Olcott, and a grandson of John H. Ol- for the act. | cott, former residents of the Capital. | | He was born here in October, 1872. He | lived several years in Exeter, N. H., but | | returned from that city last Spring and | ‘ ‘uflsl connected with the Northern Vir- | ginia Construction Co. of Clarendon at | PLAN INSTALLATION /& ume™or s Geacn The family has long been prominently = —— identified with Calvary Baptist Church 3 Eighth and H streets. Joint Ceremony to Be Ninth An-|™go i survived by his widow, Mrs § | Alice Blodgett Olcott. 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