National Affairs: Host, Guest, Snook

Albert E. Sartain, onetime warden of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, was registered at the institution last week for a sojourn of 18 months as a guest of the Government. He had been found guilty of violating a house rule when he had been there as manager in 1924, accepting tips from the guests—$10,500 worth—in exchange for soft berths. His present manager-host, Warden John W. Snook, saw to it that he was outfitted with a costume which will be inconspicuous so long as he remains within, and despatched him to the entresol where...

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