CONVICT ANNOUNCER
Otto W. Gardner, Convict X-46,812, Ohio State penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio (U.S.A.), broadcast a vivid description of the disastrous fire at the penitentiary on 21st April, which cost 319 lives. A gift of 500 dollars was made to Gardner by the radio system in appreciation of his talk on the disaster. Gardner, who is a negro, is studio manager and announcer of station WAIU, the prison radio station. He is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, and is secretary of the Protestant Church in the penitentiary. He slew his wife and another woman at Toungstown, and is serving a life sentence, reports the Chicago "Defender," a negro paper.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 10, 11 July 1930, Page 4
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112CONVICT ANNOUNCER Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 10, 11 July 1930, Page 4
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