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Caryl Chessman was probably the most famous prisoner who ever lived For almost 12 years he was living symbol for in dividuals and organizations who believe capital punishment is barbaric and should be abolished At the same time the crimes for which he was convicted were heinous Many felt he deserved to be put to death Born in St Joseph Mich on May 271921 the first nine years of Caryls life were uneventful His parents Hallie and Serl Chessman were lower middleclass hard working and Godfearing The family fell on hard times in 1930 when Mrs Chessman was severely injured in an automobile accident She was left paralyzed from the waist down and was destined never to walk again The crushing expenses of the accident placed added hard ships on the family They moved to poorer neighborhood to make ends meet By the time Caryl was 12 he was stealing food He graduated to car theft at 14 Chessmans record reads like the case history of punk on his way to inflicting pain and misery on his fellow human be mgs Life of crime In 1937 he was apprehended for auto theft and placed in an industrial school few months after his release he was sent to reformatory By 1941 Chessman was brutal lawless hoodlum making his living off crime He never denied the accusation In 1941 he was incarcerated in San Quen tin Prison on four counts of firstdegree rob bery and one count of assault with deadly weapon He escaped from San Quentin but was quickly recaptured Late in 1947 he was released on parole It was within days of his release that the saga of Caryl Chessman really began Coincidental with Chessmans release bandit began terrorizing the Los Angeles area The lone bandit preyed on couples parked in secluded lovers lanes His gray Ford coupe was outfitted with red light duplicate of those affixed to police cars The Rod Light Bandit as he was called would sneak up on young lovers flash his red light and ask the unsuspecting occupants for identification Thinking that policeman was conducting routine check the young people quickly produced their wallets and purses He would then level 45 calibre revolver at his victims and relieve them of their money Sometimes he would do more At random he would pick female passenger and take her with him On three occasions he raped these young women and forced them into acts of sexual perversion One such victim 17yearold Mary Alice Meza was held for over three hours by the Red Light Bandit before being released Highspeed chase On the night of Jan 23 1948 two police of ficers James Reardon and Robert May spotted vehicle which matched the description of the Red Light Bandits car They signalled the wanted car to pull over The driver of the car Caryl Chessman stepped on the gas wild chase ensued with the police gradually gaining on the wanted car Finally the officers rammed the gray Ford Chessman was taken into custody The Ford contained loot from robbery which had taken place earlier that evening The vehicle had been stolen in Pasadena shortly before the Red Light Bandit had started his operations As well as stolen the police uncovered 45 calibre revolver and pentype flashlight similar to the one used during the kidnapping of the girls from the parked vehicles Chessman who stood six feet seemed taller than the Red Light Bandit Despite this discrepancy many of his victims did not hesitateto identify him As result of the public response to the famous Lindbergh kidnappin case Califor nia had enacted law which ecame known was the little Lindbergh law In essence it stated that kidnapping with bodily harm with intent to commit robbery was capital offence Technically the victim could be moved matter of inches and the kidnap per would become subject to the death penalty Chessman was indicted on three Twelve years on death row counts of kidnapping and 15 counts of rob bery Chessman chose to conduct his own defence He was found guilty on 15 counts of robbery and two of kidnapping and received two death sentences His trial was strange in many ways Shortly after he was arrested Chessman confessed to being the Red Light Bandit By the time he stood trial he repudiated his confession saying he was victim of coin cidence and mistaken identity He claimed detectives had beaten him into making the false confession During the course of the trial the presiding judge let it be known that he thought the accused man was guilty As result of his animosity toward Chessman the judge denied the accused access to the transcript of the daily proceedings Normal ly the defendant has the right to see the dai ly transcript To further confuse matters the court appointed shorthand reporter dropped dead of heart attack two days before the end of the trial At the time of the stenographers sudden demise the report was only one third complete The court ordered another reporter to transcribe the balance of the trial with the assistance of the presiding judge and deputy The newlyappointed reporter was the brotherinlaw of the depu ty Eventually the judge the deputy and the new reporter officially approved the final transcript The defendant Chessman never saw it Based on the fact that his constitutional rights had been violated Chessman was granted reprieve Instead of languishing on death row in San Quentin he turned his cell into study capsule There far into the night he studied law In the opinion of many he became competent lawyer He gained reprieve after reprieve as the men ths turned into years Chessman was found to have an IQ of 138 the highest ever recorded by any inmate of San Quentin During his sixth year on death row he wrote book Cell 2455 Death Row and had it smuggled out of prison The book was bestseller and provided Chessman with the funds to carry on the battle to save his life Many of the reprieves did not come through until the execution date On more than one occasion he was almost on his way to the gas chamber when some legal ploy or other would save him Two further books Trial by Ordeal and The Face of Justice followed making Chessman the condemned convict well knovvn author News of his plight spread beyond the borders of the United States making his case the battle cry of aboli tionists all over the world Public outcry As each new execution date was set public outcry would take place Many thought Chessman had suffered enough Famous writers and lawyers interviewed him on death row All came away impress ed Others thought he should pay the supreme price for his crime The mother of Mary Alice Meza thought so Her dau hter became mentally ill and never ully recovered from the three hours spent with Chessman in all the 38yearold Chessman had been reprieved record of eight times over period of just under 12 years On an average he faced the gas chamber every 18 months for the last 12 years of his life On May 1960 time ran out for Caryl Chessman Despite thousands of appeals from all over the world the condemned man was led to the gas chamber At exactly 103 pm EDT bag of cyanide pellets was dropped into small vat of sulphuric acid Nine minutes later Chessman was pro nounced dead Some time later it was revealed that Chessman was about to be granted one hour stay of execution The telephone call had been received at precisely 104 It was too late The pellets had alrea been dropped hessinans last words were uttered to Warden Fred Dickson on the way into the gas chamber He told the warden that he was not the lied Light Bandit The doctor says Think positive about diet By THOSTESON MD Dear Dr Thosteson am 15yearold girl with an ulcer Ive known about for six months It is in my upper stom ach My doctor has me on special diet that consists mostly of foods hate My problem is cant stay on the diet am always being tempted to eat things that arent on my diet And when do which is most of the time vomit Is there any other way out My nerves caused my ul cer and Ill never get better the way Im goingMlll think you need strong dose of positive thinking about this matter And theres much about which to be positive For one thing your ulcer was dis covered surprisingly early and you can be thankful to your parents and doctors for that Many adult ulcer sufferers are found to have had the problem as youngsters In fact ulcers are being found in young people more frequently these days The distress you have after eating your forbidden foods should be sufficient punishment to steer you away from them but know howdifficult it is for young woman to turn down the cola drink everyone else is having Again positive think ing You will cure your ulcer by avoiding the nonos suggest more mature atti tude on your pan Nerves cer tainly do play role in ulcer formation No doubt about that Your tendency toward ulcer formation is what you have to live with all your life not the ulcers Your ulcer diet neednt be as grim as you portray it The idea is to reduce stomach acid formation as you probably NORTH 4Q952 V762 oAQJi OQJ EAST OKJII VJ10983 0109 OK104 SOUTH 9A108764 VA K82 OA95 Vulnerable Neither Dealer South 5IOA West North East South Pass Pass NT Pass Pass NT Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Opening lead Contract bridge was in vented around l925 and all true bridge players are richer from the experience of being able to say Hey lot of the guys who started this devilish game are still around and they still win important tournaments Its true Bridge is still young game and the early innovators and pioneers are still competing in major tournaments The list in cludes such titans as Jay Becker Dick Frey Sam know Besides diet there are medicines other than the anta cid tablets you can use One of them is cimetidine Tagamet See if you cant get yourself back on the ball and cure this ulcer of yours while your youth is in your favor If not you may end up without stomach Dear Dr Thosteson What is bottlemouth have been told that this can result from letting an infant nurse bottle too long What is too longMrs 0M There has been an increase reported in this especially in onetofive year olds The bottle mouth syndrome is another term for it Overlong nursing on bottles can prompt over production of certain body chemicals that attack toot enamel Those concerned with this say it is not problem with milk alone Fruit juice when sucked for long periods can be harmful The torigue and nipple tend to protect the lower teeth so damage is usually noted in the upper ones Parents shouldnt allow nursing bottle to become pact fier long after an infant has sat isfied its needs Its best to ar range schedule for bottle use and remove it from the scene afterward If the bottleaspaci fier habit has become in grained usc plain water pa cifier even thumbsucking itself may be preferable to the sugared bottle Confidential to 1111Ihe child should yield on this Re stricting the puppy to couple of rooms in the house is im practical Besides it is possible the child himself is allergic to the dander since both parents are Its not worth the risk BRIDGE Oswald Jacoby and Alan Sontag Play the right suit first Fry Mike Gottlieb Sam Stayman Charles Goren Easley Blackwood George Rapee and Waldemar von Zedtwitz The diagrammed hand played many years ago by the late Harry Fishbein Fishy to his many friends is tribute to his aggres sive bidding style and time less card play Fishy sitting South at highstakes rubber bridge game won the heart lead with his singleton ace Fishbein immediately saw that the problem was his trump suit If Fishbein could afford to lose no trump tricks his proper play in the trump suit would be the ace This picks up singleton king in either the East or West hand If however Fishbein could afford to lose trump trick there was an abso lutely safe way to make the contract First Harry had to discover whether he had any losers outside the trump suit He crossed to dummys ace of diamonds and took club finesse which won The contract was now safe Fishbein led low spade from dummy and covered Easts three with the four This won However even if it had not won Harrys ace of spades would have drawn 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