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Fire in the Big House : America's deadliest prison disaster /

"On April 21, 1930-Easter Monday-some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary's dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men who came from all corners of Prohibition-era America and from as far away as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roth, Mitchel P., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fire in the Big House
  • The fairgrounds
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • Ohio Penitentiary
  • The Big House
  • The warden
  • The keepers
  • The convicts
  • Board of inquiry
  • Mutiny in White City
  • The arsonists
  • Aftermath
  • Epilogue.