The Making Of A Con
by
Grace Larson
Genre/s
Nonfiction
Publish Date
April 1, 2019
Short Description
I had 11 inmates on my crew when I worked at the Montana State Prison. Grant Hamilton, so and grandson of doctors, was on my crew. He had been in and out of so many prisons. I took a tape recorder in so he could tell his story. He was wrongly charged when he was stationat Pearl Harbor. From then on it was downhill for Grant, known as Pappy to fellow inmates. His story is factul; his rap sheets support every event he speaks of.
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SOME BIOGRAPHICAL DATA; THE BOOK CONTAINS 17 MORE YEARS OF HIS STORY.
THE MAKING OF A CON
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
March 30, 1924: Edwin Grant (Pappy) Hamilton was born in Greybull, Wyoming, to Mabel Gregory and Dr. Thomas F. Hamilton
May 26, 1924: Pappy’s father was killed by a dope addict. Pappy was sent to live with his mother’s parents, Ned and Margaret Gregory, in RedLodge, Montana.
1936: Mabel Hamilton marries Budd Johnson; they picked Pappy up and moved to Spokane, Wa. Prior to that Pappy saw his mother once a year.
July 14, 1941: Pappy joined the National Guard and was shipped to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1942: Ned Gregory died while Pappy was overseas.
December 20, 1942: Pappy’s first conviction; He is sentenced to the Army Prison at Schofield Stockade. He is transferred to the federal prison at Englewood, Colorado. He is sent to prison for grand larceny where he served one year of a three year sentence.
March 25, 1944: He left the US and worked on the construction of Adak Naval Base in the Aleutian Islands.
October 4, 1944: Pappy re-enlisted in the army and left for Camp Roberts, California, where he was a cadreman, training troops.
November 19, 1945: He received an Honorable Discharge, then left for Chicago to attend an Electronics School under the G.I. Bill.
June 23, 1946: Pappy followed a girl to New Orleans, hit hard times, and was put in jail for simple robbery.
September 6, 1946: He was sentenced to three years in Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
June 8, 1949: He was released and returned to Montana.
August 18, 1949: Pappy was sentenced to the Montana State Prison at DeerLodge for forgery, where he served two years.
January 31, 1951: Pappy was sentenced to one to two years in the Wyoming State Prison at Rawlins. The charge: writing fraudulent checks.
November 5, 1952: He escaped from Rawlins; was picked up by the police in Yakima, Washington and returned to Rawlins.
September 29, 1953: He was released from Rawlins and returned to RedLodge, Montana.
