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Such actual plant traps as these have probably inspired the tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a "man-eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower...
...party very seriously except the Nacistas. The Nacistas take everything seriously. Last week the Nacista Congress at Santiago was very grave about a serious mistake everybody (except the Nacistas) had made for a long time-namely, confusing the word Nacista with the word Nazi. The latter, they said has horrid meanings; Nacista has the most innocent root in the world- "birth...
Despite officious interference from Philadelphia's jowly Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, whose homicide squad reported "nothing suspicious" in the deaths, scythe-nose Coroner Charles H. Hersch took charge. His investigators compared "The Klondike" with the Black Hole of Calcutta.-* The scene they reconstructed was as horrid as anything ever written in the dingy annals of U. S. prisons: Stifled, maddened by the heat, the prisoners evidently fought savagely to get water from the "hoppers," air through the tiny ventilating holes. They had stuffed clothing into the "hoppers" to flood the floors, lain down in the water, which...
...denied all knowledge of how it could have happened. He declared he had been out for a jog in the woods the morning the bodies were found, could not have been more surprised. He shut himself up in his house and tried to wash his hands of the whole horrid affair. Two guards-Alfred Brough and Francis Smith-were held on homicide charges by the Coroner, who promised eight arrests of guards and "higher-ups" after the inquest this week...
...Earle hopes to spring to the U. S. Senate, was coveted by Mr. Earle's Attorney General, Charles J. Margiotti who, like George Earle, was formerly a Republican. Mr. Margiotti charged Mr. Earle's colleagues-upon whose behavior he was presumably a behind-scenes expert-with horrid crimes. The Governor bade his" Attorney General substantiate the charges and prosecute. When Margiotti failed to do so, Earle fired him (TIME...