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...night they took William Cody Kelley from his cell, stripped him except for shorts and socks, marched him into the death chamber where there are three chairs. Into the middle chair they plopped Killer Kelley, strapped him tight, put a blindfold over his eyes. Beneath the chair was a trough containing twelve potassium cyanide "eggs." Under the trough was a bucket of sulphuric acid. Silently the guards withdrew and sealed the door. Through the windows peered 15 physicians. A lever was pulled. The "eggs" dropped into the bucket. White fumes boiled up. In ten seconds Kelley was unconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death by Gas: 90 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...blindfold ever changed?" asked the prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Nappers at the Bar | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...said moustache cut. and wilfully and maliciously intending to cause said plaintiff disfigurement, humiliation, ridicule and mental and physical suffering and discomfort, did then and there with force and arms assault said plaintiff and laid hold of him and, placing a towel over his eyes to blindfold him, did . . . cut off both ends of his said moustache and closely crop same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Gravy | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

Tosca, by Italian artists and orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $21)?The Puccini-Sardou opus more vividly performed than in many a leading opera house. The recording would warrant a blindfold competition with a firsthand hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dutchman and Debuts | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...year. The work is grouped according to entries, all the pieces of one sort being placed together. One of the advertisements of local interest is the large Old Gold proof demonstrating the fact that Harvard was the first college where Old Gold failed to win first place in the blindfold test. The work of Norman Rockwell, John Held Jr., and other men whose work has appeared in local and national advertising during the year may now be seen together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOK COMPETITION OPENS EXHIBITION | 1/29/1930 | See Source »

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