Word: jailer
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...dead of night, Jailer G. F. Dabbs answered a knock at his door. A mob of men threw a blanket over his head, took away his keys, locked him in a cell. In a caravan of automobiles, the men carried the Negro boys away into the night. When the sun came up, deputies found their bodies hanging from the trestle...
Desperadoes. In Sebring, Fla., five women prisoners belabored the county jailer with a broom, made a clean getaway...
Jails. In Mexico City when a jailer stopped letting a prisoner go out every day the prisoner protested to a court on the ground that his constitutional rights were being denied him. In Louisville, when a drunken teamster fell asleep on his wagon his mule pulled him to a police station, stopped at the door...
...forged neutral passport, was arrested at Frankfort on the Main, was saved by the sportsmanship of the consul of the country from which Alfred supposedly came. In 1926 the mature reporter of 98 was arrested in Portugal, condemned to death, thrown into a dungeon. He escaped with a jailer's help and got back to England...
...other's, jailer of mine, Harassed city, . ... gay in the theatres...