Word: brigstock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve. She claims that she sleeps on two hours a night, is never tired. In her swank Kensington home she fondles a fine collection of Oriental objets d'art, hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove...
...already driving back & forth blaring out "Abide With Me". A mob of 50 sandwich men paraded with signs. Mrs. Van der Elst's supreme inspiration, three airplanes zoomed above the prison, trailing banners, "Stop the Death Sentence." Promptly at 9 o'clock, the trap dropped under Murderer Brigstock. "Gentlemen remove your hats," Cried Mrs. Van der Elst, falling on her knees. Later she said: "I pay ?12,000 ($60,000) income tax and I have a right to be heard by the Government. I am going to protest against every execution in England from now on. ... The Government...
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