"GIVEN AMNESTY BUT MUST REJOIN U.S. CHAIN GANG," Toronto Star. May 4, 1935. Page 1 & 2. --- Archie Hyatt Released From Prison, Held For Virginia Police ---- RAY BOVIN IS FREED ---- Will Also Be Deported--Escorted to Border By Mother, Official| ---- Special to The Star Kingston, May 4. - As secretive as he has been at Kingston during his years of incarceration, Ray Bovin, brother of Bill Bovin, leader of the Union station mail robbery at Toronto, left the penitentiary yesterday, one of the outstanding prisoners to benefit by the jubilee remissions.
Bovin left Portsmouth yesterday with his mother, who had come for him from the department of justice at Ottawa.
Accompanied by David Reynold, or "Uncle Dave," as he is called, well-known immigration official, Bovin and his mother drove in a taxicab from the penitentiary to the train, and left for Windsor quietly in the first-class section of the train. At the border Bovin is to be deported to Detroit.
Reynolds will return on Sunday night to take one of the most picturesque characters in the penitentiary all the way to Vancouver for deportation. She is Nip Gar, from the Calgary district. who figured sensationally at the time of her arrest as "Queen of the Dope Ring." A Chinese woman, nearly 60 years of age, she has never been able to learn English. The limit of her vocabulary has been "big bossee" for the warden.
She is a product of the old foot-binding era of China. Her feet are about three inches in length and her ankles about the size of a pipe bowl.
Goes Back to Chain Gang One of the saddest cases to benefit by jubilee remission proclamation is Archie Hyatt, who, though pardoned in Canada, must return to Virginia to answer a charge of breaking from a chain gang.
A fine, upstanding young fellow, Hyatt is now in the city jail, remanded on an extradition charge, and will appear in the Kingston police court at an early date, probably Tuesday.
Among to-day's three releases from Portsmouth are expected to be Samuel Zaluski and Philip Rohdensky, who have served 15 years for complicity in a fatal hold-up of a construction gang in Peterboro county. They are expected to go to Montreal.
Free 18 From Collins Bay Preferred prisoners from Collins Bay penitentiary camp joined in the jubilee sentence re-missions to-day when 18 of them were notified at breakfast they would be leaving this afternoon.
A special coach for their accommodation is to be attached to the Maple Leaf flyer.
By Tuesday the total of remissions is expected to reach 75.
No great joy was noticeable among the men to-day. "We were due out within a month or two anyhow," one explained.
The statement "Red" Ryan will not be among to-day's releases and that there is no immediate prospect of his being freed was made by Warden R. M. Allen. When Ryan is released, it is expected he will not be let out with any of the other men.