Story With Dick Price
The following story is written in the book by Al Jennings, Through the Shadows with O. Henry. A young inmate, Dick Price, was sentenced for life for repeated safe-cracking, in which he was a good specialist. Once there was a necessity to open a safe of a company, when keys were lost. George Nash promised to pardon Price, if he did it. Price cracked the safe, but Nash didn't pardon him, thus didn't fulfill his promise. Soon Price died in prison. His story was used by O. Henry in a story A Retrieved Reformation.
According to other sources, the name of the safe-cracker was Jimmy Connors.
Read more about this topic: George K. Nash
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