The New Yorker:

The ten-year-old mascot of Princeton’s football team.

By Rogers E. M. Whitaker
January 2, 1954

ANNALS OF CRIME about Samuel Norman Savitt (Savatsky), a Rochester, N.Y., accountant & investment adviser who had de frauded his clients & the government of betw. $50 & 100,000 then fled to France and there joined the Foreign Legion. After a medical discharge Savitt found work in Paris. He was still employed when he was arrested by the French police. Savitt was sent to the Prison de la Sante, an institution that was founded by Napoleon as a hospital but has since become a prison. Savitt spent six months there, and survived he says, only because he had some money for extra food, which the jailers sold to their more prosperous prisoners, advertising each day's specials over loudspeakers. Tells about the extradition procedings. Savitt was brought back to this country, stood trial and is now serving a three-year term at the Lewisburg penitentiary.

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