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Twice
they
had
me
before
the
full
Board
of
Directors
.
I
was
alternately
bullied
and
cajoled
.
Their
attitude
resolved
itself
into
two
propositions
.
If
I
delivered
up
the
dynamite
,
they
would
give
me
a
nominal
punishment
of
thirty
days
in
the
dungeon
and
then
make
me
a
trusty
in
the
prison
library
.
If
I
persisted
in
my
stubbornness
and
did
not
yield
up
the
dynamite
,
then
they
would
put
me
in
solitary
for
the
rest
of
my
sentence
.
In
my
case
,
being
a
life
prisoner
,
this
was
tantamount
to
condemning
me
to
solitary
confinement
for
life
.
Oh
,
no
;
California
is
civilized
.
There
is
no
such
law
on
the
statute
books
.
It
is
a
cruel
and
unusual
punishment
,
and
no
modern
state
would
be
guilty
of
such
a
law
.
Nevertheless
,
in
the
history
of
California
I
am
the
third
man
who
has
been
condemned
for
life
to
solitary
confinement
.
The
other
two
were
Jake
Oppenheimer
and
Ed
Morrell
.
I
shall
tell
you
about
them
soon
,
for
I
rotted
with
them
for
years
in
the
cells
of
silence
.
Oh
,
another
thing
.
They
are
going
to
take
me
out
and
hang
me
in
a
little
while
--
no
,
not
for
killing
Professor
Haskell
.
I
got
life-imprisonment
for
that
.
They
are
going
to
take
me
out
and
hang
me
because
I
was
found
guilty
of
assault
and
battery
.
And
this
is
not
prison
discipline
.
It
is
law
,
and
as
law
it
will
be
found
in
the
criminal
statutes
.
I
believe
I
made
a
man
's
nose
bleed
.
I
never
saw
it
bleed
,
but
that
was
the
evidence
.
Thurston
,
his
name
was
.
He
was
a
guard
at
San
Quentin
.
He
weighed
one
hundred
and
seventy
pounds
and
was
in
good
health
.
I
weighed
under
ninety
pounds
,
was
blind
as
a
bat
from
the
long
darkness
,
and
had
been
so
long
pent
in
narrow
walls
that
I
was
made
dizzy
by
large
open
spaces
.
Really
,
mime
was
a
well-defined
case
of
incipient
agoraphobia
,
as
I
quickly
learned
that
day
I
escaped
from
solitary
and
punched
the
guard
Thurston
on
the
nose
.
I
struck
him
on
the
nose
and
made
it
bleed
when
he
got
in
my
way
and
tried
to
catch
hold
of
me
.
And
so
they
are
going
to
hang
me
.
It
is
the
written
law
of
the
State
of
California
that
a
lifetimer
like
me
is
guilty
of
a
capital
crime
when
he
strikes
a
prison
guard
like
Thurston
.
Surely
,
he
could
not
have
been
inconvenienced
more
than
half
an
hour
by
that
bleeding
nose
;
and
yet
they
are
going
to
hang
me
for
it
.
And
,
see
!
This
law
,
in
my
case
,
is
ex
post
facto
.
It
was
not
a
law
at
the
time
I
killed
Professor
Haskell
.
It
was
not
passed
until
after
I
received
my
life-sentence
.
And
this
is
the
very
point
:
my
life-sentence
gave
me
my
status
under
this
law
which
had
not
yet
been
written
on
the
books
.
And
it
is
because
of
my
status
of
lifetimer
that
I
am
to
be
hanged
for
battery
committed
on
the
guard
Thurston
.
It
is
clearly
ex
post
facto
,
and
,
therefore
,
unconstitutional
.
But
what
bearing
has
the
Constitution
on
constitutional
lawyers
when
they
want
to
put
the
notorious
Professor
Darrell
Standing
out
of
the
way
?
Nor
do
I
even
establish
the
precedent
with
my
execution
.
A
year
ago
,
as
everybody
who
reads
the
newspapers
knows
,
they
hanged
Jake
Oppenheimer
,
right
here
in
Folsom
,
for
a
precisely
similar
offence
...
only
,
in
his
case
of
battery
,
he
was
not
guilty
of
making
a
guard
's
nose
bleed
.
He
cut
a
convict
unintentionally
with
a
bread-knife
.
