Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police and guards immediately began a search for more weapons in the prison and for an armored car reported seen outside. As the hunt began, two shots rang out in a cell block. The searchers found a guard unhurt and Convict Frank Hohfer, a confederate of the other three, in his cell dead by his own hand...
What did Jean Tourenq know? Dozens of French politicians worried about the little tax collector last week. Had he really uncovered a new scandal, or was this a clever scheme to bluff the Government out of $200,000? Important men visited him in his cell last week, pleaded with him to give up the money or tell what he knew. Jean Tourenq hugged his knees and repeated his demand for a public trial...
...last week David O'Shea sat in his cell without speaking, without moving. He never confessed. On the scaffold the trap was sprung by an executioner from England, a Mr. Pierpont...
Still wearing his long black coat and his high silk hat, Sir Owen Cosby Philipps Baron Kylsant straightway motored to Wormwood Scrubs, passed through the jail doors. Newshawks had scarcely finished writing of what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...
...cell fabric...