Article: Girard D. Kadlick, 71, was held hostage at prison.(Obituary)

Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Girard D. Kadlick of Beverly, a former corrections officer at the old Charlestown State Prison who survived five days as an inmate hostage in 1955. He was 71.

A World War II Navy veteran and retired production manager at the former United Shoe Corp. in Beverly, Kadlick, then 26, was among five corrections officers taken prisoner during an armed inmate uprising and later freed.

"At one point they (the four convicts) had their guns out and said they were going to shoot them; my brother never forgot how fortunate he was come out alive," Kadlick's brother, Joseph, 67, of Roslindale said last night.

"I ...

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