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The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff – The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls Jr.

Autor Nancy Bartley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2013

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In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sentence of life imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla drew national attention, only to be buried later in local archives. Journalist Nancy Bartley has conducted extensive research to construct a compelling narrative of the events and characters that make this a unique episode in the history of criminal justice in the United States. Niccolls became a cause for Father Flanagan of Boys Town, who took to the airwaves, imploring listeners to write Governor Hartley on the boy's behalf. The bitter campaign put Hartley in such a negative light that he lost his bid for re-election. Under a new and progressive warden, Niccolls thrived in prison. Inmates like physician Peter Miller and literary agent James Ashe became his tutors, finding that Niccolls had an insatiable appetite for knowledge. During the deadly 1934 prison riot at Walla Walla, several prisoners kept him from harm. Niccolls was finally released from prison in his early twenties. He went to work at 20th Century Fox in Hollywood, where he kept his secret for the rest of his long life. The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff explores this little-known story of a young boy's fate in the juvenile justice system during the bloodiest years in the nation's penitentiaries. Journalist and writer Nancy Bartley has published in the Seattle Times, Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, Toronto Star, Houston Chronicle, and Home Magazine. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295992457
ISBN-10: 029599245X
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press

Recenzii

"Readers learn what a life behind bars was like in the days when murderers were still hung and there were no provisions for young offenders. . . . This is a welcome addition to the true crime genre, and will also interest scholars of social issues and American history."--Publishers Weekly, January 2013

"The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff is the result of some very impressive research by an author obviously engaged with the subject. And it tells an important story few of us know." Joann Byrd, author of Calamity: The Heppner Flood of 1903


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Cuprins

Preface

Herbert Niccolls Jr.'s Story

Epilogue
Notes
Note on Sources
Index


Descriere

Explores a little-known story of a young boy's fate in the juvenile justice system during the bloodiest years in Americas penitentiaries

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