I Was Condemned to the Chair: With an Introduction by Dr. George W. Kirchwey, former Warden of Sing-Sing Prison

The remarkable and graphic autobiography of a convict who spent twenty month in the old Sing Sing death house with all its attendant horrors and then served "twenty to life" in Sing-Sing, Dannemora and Comstock prisons at a period when penology was in most interesting and evolutionary stage. Written graphically, and from the prisoner's point of view, it gives sensational reflection on our prison system as the under dog sees it and bring in the ways that prisoners circumvent the rules, how they escape, how they regard wardens, deputies, guards and prison reformers, how they live and how they suffer. It gives intimate glimpses of criminal personalities whose reputation extends from coast to coast.

"Has a quality of timeliness as well as a glow of feeling which adds greatly to its interest and value," says the famous criminologist, Dr. George W. Kirchwey, in his introduction.

The author of this unique book was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is now leading a useful life as a good citizen of a city which shall be nameless. He has naturally abandoned his real name of Edward F. McGrath, Sing-Sing Death House Prisoner No. 60,021; recommitted for twenty years to life, No, 61,550