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When she came back she ordered the nurse to get some ice, and placed the bottle on a washstand. (When chemists later analyzed the meat juice, they found that it contained half a grain of arsenic.) Two nights later Maybrick died. Florrie was arrested. In gloomy Walton Gaol, Florrie sank to the stone floor, crying, "Oh, my God, help me," and fainted...
...everyone who gets a little drunk lands in gaol," said the editor, "but Liverpool prison serves a wide area in North-West England and North Wales . . . and so may be regarded as fairly representative of the country as a whole." According to available prison statistics, there was an appreciable fall in the amount of drunkenness during the first four months of the war. Dr. Snell's reasons: ". . . Resolute acceptance of the present situation in contrast to the wild enthusiasm manifest in 1914 ... a heightened sense of social responsibility . . . and the static character of the war itself during its early...
When police arrived at the "Black House" of Sir Oswald's British Union, they did not find the Führer himself, but eight black-shirted comrades who lined up and shouted "Hell Mosley!" before they were hustled off to Brixton Gaol. Married with Nazi pomp to Diana Guinness, sister of the Führer's bullet-punctured friend Unity Freeman-Mitford, with Hitler reported to have been best man. Sir Oswald recently celebrated "my forthcoming arrest" in a swank London restaurant. He was picked up at home and police were sent after his wife, who had headed...
...Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that no one is particularly surprised at advertisements in the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury setting out the fine points of certain bullet-proof vests. Shanghai's "biggest jail in the world," Ward Road Gaol, is expected before the end of 1940 to house 10,000 prisoners, most of whom have spilled in from the Badlands...
...Tans, the British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time with 7,000 men in his command. He found the revolutionary movement driven...