Word: hangman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SERENADE To THE HANGMAN-Maurice Dekobra-Payson & Clarke ($2.50). Ibrahim, an Egyptian cuckolder, is imprisoned in Stamboul, about to be hanged for anarchy. To him comes Schomburg, Bohemian psychiatrist, one of the men he has cuckolded. He offers Ibrahim freedom, on condition that he commit suicide a year later. Joyfully Ibrahim signs the pledge, escapes his prison, flirts with guests on the Schomburg yacht, crosses swords of wit with Schomburg himself, saves a little French dancer from ruffians and takes her to live with him. He wanders feverishly through Europe feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide...
...Colorado's history, came sporadic shrieks, bullets and curses. They were holding 16 guards as hostages. About 175 convicts, refusing to join "Danny Daniels' party," were huddled in the rear of the cellhouse. At 7 p.m., the bullet-torn body of J. J. Elles, the prison hangman, was hurled out of a window in Cellhouse No. 3. Rescuers rushed him to a hospital but he soon died. At 7:15 p.m. another punctured body was hurled out. It was Guard R. A. Williams, already dead. At 9:00 p.m. the hundreds of soldiers and citizens surrounding the prison...
Appropriately born at Quincy, at ten he was scudding over Quincy Bay in a sail boat, out to Hangman's Island, where his father doted on the smelt-fishing. At twelve he was racing his own little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper...
...determining his fee, a high-grade physician considers his patient and the circumstances of the case. So, too, does the high-grade hangman...
Last week, Hangman Herman Meyers, 60, of New Orleans, La., told the following story to the New Orleans Item-Tribune...