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Unemployed and a drifter, the Ohio-born Harvey, 35, claimed to have met three men with Latin names in downtown Los Angeles two weeks ago. On May 4 he was with the three in a third-floor room of the skid row Alan Hotel, near the Los Angeles Civic Center. The three told him they intended to shoot President Carter, who was scheduled to talk to a crowd in the center on the following day, a Saturday. They asked him to help. Under the plan, Harvey was to work his way toward the front of the crowd, then fire...
Lawyers for John Spenkelink, a white drifter sentenced to death for murdering another white in a Florida motel room six years ago, tried this argument on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The court rejected it, and last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The Spenkelink decision is important. The Fifth Circuit covers the six Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas) that have 75% of all the prisoners now on death row. It means that Spenkelink has nearly exhausted all possible legal remedy, and scores of inmates in other Southern...
...called-when treating of the lower classes, the English seldom assign first names-is sent to Portugal to investigate Sarah Branton, who is most definitely U. Sarah has spent eight years in a nunnery and has been saved from a suicidal drowning attempt by Richard Farley, a charming drifter of the sort that only the shires and Kenya can produce...
Sporting a light gray suit and a modishly slicked-down hair style, Scott told the court how he had left school at 15 and lived a drifter's life as a stable boy and riding instructor until one day in 1960, when he met Thorpe at a stable where he was working in Oxfordshire. As Scott related it, Thorpe somewhat inexplicably told him to come to him in London if he ever needed anything. A year later Scott, then 21 and reeling from a nervous breakdown, visited Thorpe at his office at Westminster. Thorpe, then 32 and a rising...
Jerome Charyn exerts energies that could make a turbine envious. At 41 he has published his twelfth novel, an adrenal tour of Manhattan, Dublin and parts unknown. The title character is a grief-racked, unshaven drifter who caroms around in search of trouble. The quest is professional: Isaac Sidel is first deputy police commissioner, a plainclothesman eaten by dreams and ravaged by a tape worm fastened to his entrails...