Word: arsons
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Last week the French Residency at Rabat tacitly acknowledged that switching Sultans had not brought peace and issued a five-month box score on the terror: 58 killed, 117 wounded, 87 arson attempts, 41 bomb attacks...
Headline Hunter. In Columbus, Ohio, indicted for arson, Railroad Employee Lawrence Pepper told officials that he set fire to 27 autos in ten days because "I like excitement and . . . like to read about...
...almost every Briton knows, the school called St. Trinian's is a strange, spooky, neo-Gothic institution based somewhere in England. At St. Trinian's, gargoylish women in high-collared dresses and spindle-shanked girls in mussy black tunics go blithely through term after term of arson, mayhem and murder. For sheer energy, the St. Trinian's girl has no match...
...causing some peaceable Doukhobors to join their ranks. The differing views were reflected in Vancouver's leading newspapers, the Sun and the Province. Said the Sun: "The tough policy has been tried before [and] has always failed." Said the Province: "Plain, ordinary methods cannot cope with [dynamiting and arson]. They could be moved bag and baggage to some isolated northern wilderness . . . where the prevailing temperature rules out nude parades...
...nights locked in fetid barracks. For those who rebelled, there were solitary cells on St. Joseph Island, cement pits whose only opening was an iron grille. Few inmates long survived St. Joseph. One who did was the locally famed Paul Roussenq, an ex-soldier serving 20 years for attempted arson. Paul's reputation as the ace of all incorrigibles earned him a more or less permanent home on St. Joseph. He wrote frequent obscene letters to the prison governor, went out of his way to plague the warden, tried to give himself TB, practiced acrobatics on the grate...