Jimmy Boyle (artist) Jimmy Boyle (artist) James Boyle (born 17 May 1944) is a Scottish gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor and novelist after his release from prison. In 1967, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney, but released after 14 years. He has always denied killing Rooney but has acknowledged having been a violent and sometimes ruthless moneylender from the Gorbals, one of the roughest areas of Glasgow. During his incarceration in the special unit of Barlinnie Prison, he turned to art and wrote an autobiography, "A Sense of Freedom" (1977),
Nelson S. Dilworth elected to the state senate in 1944. He commuted from his home in Hemet to the state capitol in Sacramento until he retired from the legislature in 1960, at age 70. During his tenure in the state senate, he served as chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee on Education. Although he lived in the Coachella Valley for most of his life, an elementary school in San Jose is named after him. Nelson S. Dilworth Nelson S. Dilworth (1890-1965), a Hemet farmer, served for more than 20 years in the California legislature. During World War I he served in the American