Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First stop on the itinerary of Commissioner MacCormick's raiding party was a cell-block largely tenanted by narcotic addicts who whimpered in their blankets, begged their visitors for "just a little shot." In their littered cells were found electric stoves, pots, pans, hatchets, butcher knives, lengths of lead pipe, needle-pointed stilettos (see cut). Some narcotics were discovered, a complete hypodermic set, blackened spoons in which "dope" had been cooked, needles and gouges with which inmates without syringes gashed themselves to let the precious drugs into their veins. To the police it looked more like a hop house...
...cellar, he was spirited away to Ardfalla, a little village on the coast where the I. R. A. had a gunrunning post, an underground ammunition factory. Then Kerry began to see death. His first ambush was not so bad. The massacre of Black & Tans herded into a cell was worse. When he was a witness of the cold-blooded shooting of pretty Kitty Brady it was nearly too much. But when he was given the pleasant job of guarding beautiful Lady Moira, a hostage, Kerry took a new lease on life...
...Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Clyde Deer, 230-lb. guard, was sipping his breakfast coffee near the cell block of desperate prisoners when he suddenly was set upon with clubs by seven convicts headed by Life Termers Jim Clark and Bob Brady. Participants in the Memorial Day jail break, they seized Guard Deer's keys, locked him and several trusties in a cell, spent 20 minutes building a ladder, rushed it across the baseball diamond and climbed over the prison wall under cover of a fog and under fire of guards...
...first to be called to attend Stavisky. I protest that I was not also called to testify at the inquest which pronounced him a suicide." In Bayonne the local Mayor, M. Joseph Garat, a Deputy of France arrested as an accomplice of Swindler Stavisky, sat in his cell shivering and disconsolate. One of his last acts as Mayor was to refuse the piteous pleas of shivering prisoners that he install central heating in the jail...
...international revolutionaries of the Communist persuasion." Since no correspondent witnessed the execution. Dr. Goebbels could and did put out an exclusive Government story of what occurred: At 5 p. m. Public Prosecutor Werner, whose speeches during the Reichstag Trial fill several volumes, entered van der Lubbe's isolated cell, reread the death sentence of the Supreme Court (TIME, Jan. 1), stated that President von Hindenburg had refused to commute it and told van der Lubbe to make ready for death at dawn. During the night a guillotine was hastily knocked together in the prison courtyard. Meanwhile van der Lubbe...