Bishop Wells
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- Sep 16, 1894The Bishop, the Convicts, and the Sparring MatchBishop Wells insists a prisoner-run entertainment at the penitentiary was decorous and proper—not the prizefight rumor made it out to be.Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, WA
- Sep 21, 1894A Walla Walla Pastor Defends the Prison's Sunday 'Boxing Bouts'Rector W. Law writes to defend Warden Coblenz and the penitentiary's Sunday programs, insisting the glove contests that scandalized critics were gentler than a schoolyard game.Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, WA