Word: jailbreakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitsitt is trusted to go pretty much where he pleases in the prison, pesters the life out of turnkeys and wardens alike for items. But what buzzes along the prison grapevine, wise Lifer Whitsitt lets severely alone. One night last fortnight the grapevine crackled with details of an attempted jailbreak, in which six escaping prisoners killed a guard. Of this black-type story, the Radio Gazette has broadcast not a peep. Says young Lifer Whitsitt: "I'm no Walter Winchell...
Some 1,500 grim-faced prisoners in the Rightists' San Cristóbal fortress at Pamplona, 30 miles from the French border, suddenly attacked a few of their guards, connived with the others, and last week succeeded in executing a mass jailbreak. In a few days, posses of Rightist Civil Guards rounded up 600 fugitives, killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members...
...came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers replied. "Two million to one . . . ten million...
...thief who stole a fortune in pearls and banknotes from Lady Cleone's grandfather is accomplished by some highly literate dramaturgy by Clemence Dane, some handsome snuff-taking by Fairbanks Jr., some capital period studies, including: 1) a bare-knuckle prizefight; 2) a Court cotillion; 3) a jailbreak; 4) a presentation of living tableaux from the paintings of the Royal Academy...
...Indianapolis' county jail 80 prisoners grew nauseated after their noon meal. Sheriff Otto Ray thought that someone, perhaps hoping for a jailbreak, had poured disinfectant into the gravy...