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“Severe Sentences Levied At Border By Justice Raney,” Toronto Globe. October 29, 1930. Page 19. ----- ‘Gunmen and Gangsters’ Learn That Laws Must Not Be Flouted --- ARMED THUG IS MENACE --- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) Windsor, Oct. 28. - Seven men who were found guilty at the Sandwich sittings of the Supreme Court were sentenced to long terms in the Ontario Penitentiary at Portsmouth by Justice W. E. Raney this afternoon.

Charles Zenkauscas, 26 years old, convicted of stealing jewelry, bric-a-bric, and clothing from the Puce summer cottage of Dr. E. L. Giffen, Detroit, dentist, was sentenced to 14 years for this offense, seven years for possessing firearms with intent to commit bodily harm. Zenkauscas has a long prison record and is wanted in Waterbury, Conn., his home city, for bank robbery.

Albert Kurtinitis of Detroit, convicted of smuggling firearms into the Essex County jail to Zenkauscas, and Fred Robinet and Clarence Jacobs, both of Tecumseh, who were arrested in the house where Zenkauscas had the stolen property, were each sentence to serve seven years.

Twenty Years Thomas St. Clair [or Sinclair], 29 years old, and William McCrea, 30 years old, who held up the Government beer warehouse in Windsor, taking approximately $3,000 from the manager, were sentenced for the robbery, and also for retaining stolen money. St. Clair was sentenced to serve 20 years on the first charge and 10 years on the second. McCrea was sentenced to serve 15 years on the first charge and 10 years on the second. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Kenneth Threselton, 26 years old, of Windsor, was sentenced to serve 10 years for the theft of a radio, and for shooting at an officer while trying to escape.

Justice Raney characterized all these as ‘gunmen and gangsters’ and said the severe penalties were not given in a spirit of retaliation, but rather for the protection of society. He added that all of them were headed for the gallows had they not been restrained.

Manslaughter Sentence. Joseph Martin, 26 years old, of George Street, Amherstburg, charged with murder was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to 10 years. He was arrested for the slaying of Clarence Dolman, 19 years old, of Windsor, who died from a stab wound in the abdomen, caused by Martin. Dolman interfered on behalf of Martin’s sister when she was being beaten by her brother and another man, and in the scuffle, Martin inflicted the fatal injury.

[AL: Charles Zenkauskas (#1922) had been in penitentiary before in the States. He worked in the tailor shop at Kingston Penitentiary, and walked the ‘chalk line’ in the penitentiary. He was prominent in his shop, along with Cecil Irving, in being opposed to the growing resentment and organizing for a demonstration. Indeed, he refused to go along - “it was a foolish thing...a dangerous thing” made worse by the fact that the officers “did not handle things well.” Indeed, he though the Deputy Warden was like an “old women” who needed to be “a little more strict.” He felt that most of the officers complained about by the other convicts were not accurate - “you will find that the fellows who get the most marks and dockets are the fellows who are in trouble where ever they go.” He knew that getting through prison meant that “fellows who behave themselves get treated all right.” For all that, he was shot at during the last day of the riot, while hiding in a cell on the 4th tier - with two inmates who were considered ringleaders of the disturbance, men he claimed wanted to harm him. After the riot he was moved to the carpentry shop and continued to work and keep his head down. He was moved back to Tailor Shop #2 in 1935, and was interviewed by the Inspector of Penitentiaries in 1939 - he complained about the bad equipment and poor organization of the industries. He was released in late 1939. Albert Kurtinitis (#1923) was a first timer in penitentiary. He worked in the Paint Shop. He supported all the demands of the rioters in 1932. He was a reported a dozen times for various kinds of talking, gambling, idling his time, and so forth. He was released early and deported in June 1935 back to the United States. He and Zenkauskas were both Lithuanian immigrants to the States. Clarence Jacobs (#1977) appealed his sentence but that appeal was denied and he arrived at Kingston Penitentiary in late November 1930. He worked first in the barber shop then in the bakery. He was a first timer in penitentiary, though he had served in county jails. He went along with the riot in 1932 but had no specific complaints or demands. He was released in April 1936. Fred Robinet (#1936) did not appeal his sentence. He worked in the Tailor Shop at Kingston Penitentiary along with Zenkauskas, but was much interested in supporting the convict revolt in 1932-1933. He thought the shaving system was bad, the lack of exercise terrible, and the education system poorly organized - it had no up to date school books, and he failed his French and algebra courses because his school books did not arrive until after the test. He was transferred to Collin’s Bay Penitentiary in early 1933, but was returned in mid-1934 to Kingston for a disciplinary issue. He was released in May 1935. Thomas Sinclair (#1920) had been in prison before, in Detroit and at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. He felt that problems in prisons originate from the same problems - the spy system and stool pigeons, churches that teach “nothing but bunk from the day you come in and come out” and a lack of trust and self-direction. He worked in the Carpentry shop at Kingston Penitentiary, and thought the conditions were poor there, with bad equipment. He was written up for disobedience a few times, including several times in church and once on a false report due to disagreeing with the Warden. He was implicated in an escape attempt in August 1931, with McCrea and several other inmates - Deputy Warden Walsh believed he cut his finger on purpose to avoid participating. After the riot, Sinclair felt that if the new administration kept its word on penal reform, “the boys would keep theirs.” In 1935 he was one of a group of inmates transferred to the North-West Cell Block, a minimum security section where he worked in the vocational shop there. Interestingly, he was implicated several times, in 1937. 37 and 1939 in organizing or supporting strikes and protests against the prison - in 1939 he was accused of asking other inmates during yard time “thumbs up or thumbs down” on the strike. He denied his role naturally. He was released in July 1943. William McCrea (#1921) had been in Kingston Penitentiary before, released in 1929 on a five year sentence. He felt that last bit “had taken the fight out of me” and was utterly hopeless starting his second sentence: “I don’t ever expect to get out of here....the only thing to do is beat the game or hang.” McCrea was put in the Blacksmith shop, with Murray Kirkland and Alfred Garceau, other prisoners soon to be influential in prison affairs. With Garceau and Kirkland, McCrea hatched an escape plan. The incompetent staff instructor ignored their fashioning of knives and hammers for breaking locks, and the five men came up with a rather ambitious or foolhardy plan to start a mutiny, knowing how hated the penitentiary was, and in the confusion, rush the front gate with their weapons. Even more fantastically, they were to time the demonstration with the visit of a fuel truck - they intended to ram it into the front gate to cause an explosion. They were ratted out by several inmates, including #1977 Jacobs, all of whom genuinely thought they’d get killed during the attempt. He was kept in solitary for several months, where he suffered a cold, was not tried, and claimed other men were beaten - he considered these punishments to be “degrading.” He became influenced by his time meeting the Communists in Kingston, and came down on the side of a demonstration to get change in the penitentiary. He played a crucial role during the riot of October 1932 - he operated the blowtorch to allow the men out of the shop, and used it free other prisoners. He also took a role in stopping some of the younger inmates “who throw out their chests and be big men” from blowing up or damaging the generators. Indeed, he was made a spokesman by other inmates and maintained some influence into 1933 as a member of the inmate committee. In the investigation after the riot, McCrea supported the demands for magazines, recreation, news “from the outside, not on the grapevine,” inmate pay, segregation of the young boy prisoners, and the removal of corporal punishment from the hands of the warden. McCrea was one of the inmates put on trial for his role in the riot, and along with Willard Milich #2077 he tried to canvas the other inmates for financial assistance - this was denied by the authorities, but eventually it was allowed and about 100 men put forward some of their savings to support those men on trial. He was given 18 months for riotous destruction of property. He continued to be somewhat influential and geared towards agitating until early 1934. McCrea was eventually transferred to the Carpentry shop, and then was transferred to Saskatchewan Penitentiary in 1938. Both Threselton (#1924) and Martin (#1925) were kept at Kingston Penitentiary until about mid-1932, and were then transferred to Collin’s Bay. Threselton was paroled in 1936 and Martin in 1934.]

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commiegoth · 7 years ago

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So I made a list of all the books I have on me, more for my own sake (since I’m moving) than anything else, but if you wanna know what I’m about I guess, here it is.

Fiction:

I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader by Samuel Beckett

The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block

The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick

The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, and Lise Mayer (I actually have two copies of this one)

Amphigorey by Edward Gorey

Amphigorey Too by Edward Gorey

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Amerika by Franz Kafka

The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka

Flywheel, Shyster, & Flywheel: The Marx Brothers’ Lost Radio Show edited by Michael Barson

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Death and Dementia by Edgar Allen Poe

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

All the Wrong Questions 1: “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” by Lemony Snicket

All the Wrong Questions 2: “When Did You See Her Last?” by Lemony Snicket

All the Wrong Questions 3: “Shouldn’t You Be in School?” by Lemony Snicket

All the Wrong Questions 4: “Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?” by Lemony Snicket

The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (out of alphabetical order cuz it’s unauthorized of course)

The Story of My Assassins by Tarun J. Tejpal

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Filth by Irvine Welsh

Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Nonfiction/Theory/Biography:

Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd

Tiki Cocktails: 200 Super Summery Drinks by David Adams

The Encyclopedia of Orson Welles by Chuck Berg and Tom Erskine

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Martin Gardner's Table Magic by Martin Gardner

Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design by Bjarki Hallgrimsson

Magic: Stage Illusions, Special Effects, and Trick Photography by Albert A. Hopkins (this book’s content was originally published in 1896 and I think that’s cool as hell)

Three Stooges FAQ by David J. Hogan

The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey (this was a joke gift from a friend in high school, I’m not a LaVeyan Satanist)

Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies by Stephen Prince

UFOs? Yes!: Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong by David R. Saunders and R. Roger Harkins

VideoHound’s Complete Guide to Cult Flicks and Trash Pics by Carol Schwartz

Bogart by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax

Maus I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner

Mark Wilson’s Complete Course in Magic by Mark Wilson and Walter Gibson (I’ve had this book since I was in elementary school and I still love it tbh)

Insects: A Guide to Familiar American Insects by Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D. and Clarence Cottam, Ph.D. (this was originally my dad’s that I kinda usurped as a kid. It’s a 1956 edition and definitely looks its age)

The 2015 Little League Official Regulations and Playing Rules (from when I was an umpire, idk why I still have it)

#wow this is 50 books total and thats just the stuff i have up here dsdf #why do i read so damn much #///

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