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...whose body is tattooed from clavicle to toe with black cats, snakes and strawberries. He is official executioner for the State of Mississippi, pulls the switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair, admonished "all young people to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Death on Wheels | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and his paramour, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. "Willie," a large, pudgy, fuzzy-haired, simple-minded bachelor who liked to wear a fireman's helmet and hang around the firehouse, was counted on by the prosecution to spoil the defense's case when he testified, but proved to be the most lucid of the witnesses. His death probably closed the unsolved case for good; Brother Henry died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...rupees-Bush shirt for uniform, and sun helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Every time he lifted his head machine-gun bullets whanged his helmet: before the night was over there were 30 creases in it. The Japs never stopped firing all night. Ross emptied his rifle at a gun nest and then grabbed another rifle; the other men reloaded and he fired. He figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...helmet was knocked off. Something struck me in the face. I put my hand to my face and eyes. I felt blood and raw flesh. . . . The Japs in the trees fired a steady downpour of bullets that chipped up dirt all around us and ripped through our sandbags. ... I strained my eyes for a, glimmer of light, but I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: In a Solomons' Gun Nest | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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