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Just about dinnertime, on May 11, 1941, a garment worker named Santo Caminito was picked up by New York police for the holdup-murder of Coney Island Merchant Murray Hameroff. Although Caminito had never been arrested before, the cops were sure they had their man. They set out to get...
Santo Caminito was thrown into a bedless cell. His family and a lawyer retained by relatives were denied permission to see him. Relays of detectives questioned him for 27 hours, giving him almost no rest. To show Caminito how hopeless his cause was, the police worked a trick: a male...
In 1931 Sukhanov was hauled up in a dress rehearsal of the confession-and-purge trials to come. The charge : promoting Western military intervention to destroy the Soviet state. He pleaded guilty. Once in jail, however, he wrote an indignant appeal to the government - now run by the "grey blur...
Portland police decided that the wiring of Smith's car had been an expert job. Two hours later they arrested a suspect: husky, greying Victor Lawrence Wolf, 45, an electrician who lived in an apartment house owned by Mrs. Marjorie Smith. After ten hours of questioning, police charged Wolf...
It was Red China's first top-level Communist purge. The terms of the denunciation closely followed the Russian pattern, but if the Chinese leaders had intended to follow up expulsion with a Stalinist-type public confession of guilt by Kao, they were defeated by an old Chinese custom...