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Said his American Negro jailer: "He is the nastiest ole man I ever did see. He growls like a dog when I come near him." But he was also a pathetic old man, whose wife and daughter had committed suicide, and who would probably not live to the end of his sentence. The lesson that Lammers held for the world was that there were other men like him and not only in Germany, whose mediocre but precise minds were willing to do the office work of terror...
Midway in the second day, selection of an all-white jury was completed. Prosecutor Watt got down to work. His first witness was J. Ed Gilstrap, 62, the jailer at Pickens. Ed told about turning Willie Earle over to the mob. "I thought they meant business," he said, grinning. "They had a gun." Who was in the mob? Ed wasn't sure...
Died. Lewis Edward Lawes, 63, famed, longtime (1920-41) warden of New York's Sing Sing* Prison; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Garrison, N.Y. Jailer-Author Lawes (Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing), a foe of capital punishment, was required by his job to witness 303 executions, bowed his head when the electric chair's 2,000 volts jolted out a human life...
Rehabilitate or Electrocute. A sample committee operation was that on Louisville's county jail. The jailer came to the first meeting with the committee sure that he was being put on the spot. But when he found that the committee's purpose was to help with his problems rather than to seek his scalp, he cooperated enthusiastically. One weekend the committee kept a 30-hour vigil (six-hour shifts of two men each) to observe the jail's routine. Result: 1) a program of wise reforms carried out with the help of individual committee members; 2) public...
...play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...