Word: broward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utterly unprepared was the U. S. to impose the death penalty. Its agents first attempted to borrow the jail of Broward County for the execution, were chased away by the County Commissioners, who insisted a U. S. hanging should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected within the gaunt metal hangar of the U. S. Coast Guard station near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar...