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...until one of his arms fell off, what time the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his finger ends." More hideous still was the burning of Perrotine Massey who, "being great with child, did fall on her side in the fire, where as the belly of the woman brast asunder, the infant fell into the fire, and being taken out was had to the bailiff, who gave censure that it should be carried back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The English Inquisition | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

Married. Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the late Jesse W. Smith,* to one Phillip E. Brast, oil operator; at Covington, Ky. While on her honeymoon she stopped in Manhattan to visit the trial of Harry Micajah Daugherty. Two years ago she had testified against the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General during the Senate investigations. Newspapers called her "Daugherty 's giggling nemesis" (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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