Folsom's 93 by Moore April

Author:Moore, April [Moore, April]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

She concluded with, “And now, for the sake of my two children, I want the world to know that Alex Kels is not as black as he was painted.”

No one came forward offering to shed light on the case, or to come clean with a confession. After threats of a lawsuit, Mrs. Kels eventually received twenty-nine thousand dollars in insurance money and another thirteen thousand for property owned by her husband.

Mrs. Annie Kels never remarried, remaining in the Lodi area until her death in 1977. Her daughter Laverne became a best-selling novelist and her son, John, a first lieutenant in the Air Force, receiving the distinguished Flying Cross in 1944 at twenty-years of age. As of 2012, Laverne’s daughter, Janis, served on the board for Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation and was also the organization’s liaison for California Crime Victims for an Alternative to the Death Penalty.

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

On June 23, 1924, Captain of Guard Patrick J. Cochrane was inspecting the rock quarry when a cable snapped and the masthead, or boom, of a derrick broke free. The fifty-one-year-old Irishman and father of four was killed when the masthead struck him. Cochrane began working at the prison in December of 1891. Clarence Larkin, future Folsom warden, took over as captain.

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