Prison Officials Talk With Convicts
BOSTON, January 20. Officials of the Massachusetts State Prison conferred today with the four conyict desperadoes holding out for three days in a bid for freedom, and said the situation is still critical.
In a joint statement, Dr. Samuel Merlin, the prison physician, and Father Edward Hartigan, Roman Catholic chaplain, said: “We spent more than two hours this morning with the prisoners. We tried to convince them of the futility of their situation.” The convicts are holding five guards as hostages as well as six fellow inmates.
The joint statement read by Dr. Merlin to reporters, said: “According, to them their principal reason for holding- out is their lack of hope because of their extremely long sentences 1 and their inability to look forward to ever being free men even in their old age.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27564, 22 January 1955, Page 7
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