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...Sachme. The fortress of Zawi-Re was a group of gloomy buildings on an island in the Mendesian arm of the Nile. When Joseph first saw the prison he divined that he would be there three years. He was right. Joseph was 27. Joseph's jailer, the warden of Zawi-Re, was Mai-Sachme, a soldier and physician, a short, dark, calm man of 40.* Mai-Sachme made Joseph an overseer. Into the isolated life of genial Jailer Mai-Sachme, who was like an intelligent modern officer serving in a frontier post, Joseph brought a breath of the great...
Appetizer. In Los Angeles, Ponciano Pena slipped through a 13th floor jail window, was balancing on the tenth-floor ledge when he was lured in by a jailer, who remarked that dinner was served...
...Deal did not want told. If so, Dewey now had his chance to prove it. Lepke was handcuffed, but he sported a neat black suit and a big black cigar. He had the swagger of a man who thought he "knew too much" to die. To his Federal jailer he cracked: "Keep a bed for me-I'll be back...
Escapists. In Conroe, Tex., Ben May and Arliss Huffman, back in jail after they had locked up Jailer W. C. Thomas and escaped, locked up Jailer W. C. Thomas and escaped...
General Henri Honoré Giraud recalled happily in Washington how he renewed an old German acquaintance. A year after he had slipped out of Germany's Königstein prison, he encountered a bunch of prisoners in North Africa, discovered among them his old jailer...