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Prisoner Chapin's sentence was commuted to make him eligible for parole in 1933 but he did not care. Irvin Cobb and others pleaded with him to accept a pardon offered by Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. To all he replied: "I am too old to go out in the world now."
Kindly Warden Lewis E. Lawes is his great & good friend; but legend to the contrary, Prisoner Chapin is no "power behind the throne."