Word: jailer
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...justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses to sit in it. "It's furniture for old people," he snorts...
...When his jailer (named Simon just like Louis XVI's) came in to tell him that some tomatoes which had long been ripening in the yard outside were at last growing red, the old Marshal turned on him. "Bah," he snapped, "they are blushing with shame...
...owner of this somewhat startling face likes to startle strangers by announcing that he was born in jail. He came close to it. His father was the county jailer in Louisa, Ky., a tiny town in the Big Sandy Valley just across the river from West Virginia. When Fred was born in 1890, the Vinsons lived in a red brick, tree-shaded house with the jail in the rear. There was a sign outside which to a casual observer might have applied to home and cellblock alike: "$10 fine for talking to prisoners...
...double murder, he was whisked away to the Bledsoe County jail. The sheriff was away, so a young woman cook, temporarily in charge, locked him up. Within the hour, three men appeared and solemnly assured the cook that James was wanted back at the reformatory. The inexperienced jailer gave her prisoner...
When he stamped his foot, the rat dropped the object - a $10 bill. Calling the jailer, he paid his fine, walked out of jail, bought more whiskey, was back in jail that night...