It was Mr. Geidel's first application for parole since Sept. 29, 1929. He can apply again this coming August.

“Parole lied, they lied through their teeth,” charged Burton Schoenbach, a former member of the State Commission of Correction who was not reappointed by former Governor Rockefeller last September and who, as a critic of cormrection policies, is sparking the campaign for Mr. Geidel's release.

Chiefly at Mr. Schoenbach's behest, the New York State conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted last October a resolution calling for an investigation of Mr. Geidel's long imprisonment and his release if warranted. Although Mr. Geidel is white, the N.A.A.C.P. is interested in the case because of its civil‐rights aspect.

Paul J. Regan, chairman of the Board of Parole, wrote the organization that while the Sea View institution “was in effect ‘an answer to our prayers,’ as matters. subsequently developed, however. this institution declined to accept Mr. Geidel, preventing the Board of Parole from reviewing his case earlier than August of 1974.”

Both Mr. Schoenbach and Mr. Keeney challenged that, insisting that the home was always eager to accept Mr. Geidel. In his letter to the N.A.A.C.P., Mr. Regan also asserted that in appearing before the board last February, Mr. Geidel had said that he did “not wish to be paroled.”

Almost from the day he landed in prison, an intensely troubled youth, Mr. Geidel appeared to accept his fate as justly deserved, according to prison records obtained from a source outside the facility.

In November, 1918, at Dannemora, in a note brought to the attention of doctors there, Mr. Geidel wrote: “No matter how much I have sinned in this world, no matter how much of a cowardly and lowly creature have been, I at least have the right of dying with a chance of being forgiven by Almighty God... but I am on my last legs and cannot stand it any longer. Do you think one would wish for death if there was any chance to live? have known since last March that I must die within the year.”