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Pates reportedly told investigators that he fell asleep in his 7-ft. by 8-ft. isolation cell while smoking a cigarette, which he had against jail regulations. The fire was extinguished in seven minutes, but lingering black smoke continued to fell prisoners. Pates, 31, was one of the first to be freed from the north cell block, and escaped with minor burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Smoke | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...Bulow was convicted March 16 of attempting to kill has wealthy wife. Martha "sunny" Von Bulow, try injecting her within slum while she was asleep...

Author: By Marns F. Cohen, | Title: Dershowitz to Argue Von Bulow Appeal | 11/20/1982 | See Source »

...inmates were asleep when the fire started at about 1.30 a.m. and they were quickly overcome by smoke from the smoldering polyurethane, a synthetic material used as protective padding in an isolation cell, said Harold Windham, an assistant fire chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prisoner Sets Cell Ablaze, Killing 27 in Miss. Jail | 11/9/1982 | See Source »

...foot of the bed were a black cape and a trumpet. Roxanne explained in court that she was hoping "the dead would speak to the living through the trumpet." Said Peter of the occult sessions: "I don't believe in spirit voices. I was kicked out for falling asleep." Judge Harper reluctantly allowed the trumpet to be admitted as evidance. "I don't know for the life of me how this is relevant," he said, and added: "I've made so many rulings in this case, if I haven't made an error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beautiful and the Damned | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...proselytizing skills and the language of their mission country. From 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. they engage in teaching the gospel to anyone who is interested. Teaching continues until 9:00 p.m., when the missionaries eat dinner; by 10:30 p.m. they must be in bed, preferably asleep...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Spreading the Faith | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

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