Word: jailbreakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a "mean-spoken sassiness that kept people from being pleasant to him even when they wanted to." He risked his neck to get the pistol to Wade, who, instead of being killed, bluffed his way out of jail. Thereupon Clay took to the woods for having aided a jailbreak...
...Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur had in mind when they presented the character Walter Burns-the tough, smooth Chicago managing editor who stole the dead woman's stomach from the coroner's physician to prove she was poisoned; who scooped the town on a jailbreak, caught the mayor in skulduggery, shanghaied his ace reporter from his honeymoon all in three dizzy acts...
...Huban Plays, Inc.), a drama about some denizens of Manhattan's Tombs Detention Prison, opened the night after three young prisoners had escaped from the Tombs, up a secret dumb-waiter shaft, down a rope of prison bedsheets bound with bedspring wire, in the Tombs' first important jailbreak since 1926. Hoist by this factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives...
...prisoners escaped from the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City last week. Two others broke away from the Oklahoma Penitentiary at McAlester, were soon caught. And the jailbreak of the year occurred at Lansing, Kans...
...flogged over the Iron Horse. Groaning, whimpering from their beating, the boys unreasonably accuse Locket of being a stool pigeon. Defending him, Red arranges a light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan to make a raft. "We could float all the way down the Mississippi," says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere...