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...year-old girl built like a young Percheron (175 lbs.), so strong that your father, the county jailer, calls you his "handyman" and says you can handle the women prisoners "like sacks of potatoes," you are not likely to have many beaus. Such was the case of Lulu Belle Kimel of Lexington, N. C. Though she was bursting with health and warm-hearted to a degree, the boys did not consider her the village belle. James Godwin, 19, a tough and knowing High Point boy whom they brought to the jail two months ago for beating up and robbing...
When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...
...county jail of Amarillo, Tex., Jailer Dick Vaughn moved two men from solitary confinement cells after discovering they had trained a large cockroach to bring them cigarets from other prisoners...
...back to Marama. He broke jail so many times that he became a legend. Each time he tried to get away he added from two to five years to his sentence. Eight years had passed before he hit on the scheme of pretending to hang himself so that the jailer would come in and bring the keys. He killed a sentry with a blow of his fist, paddled an outrigger 600 miles back to his own atoll. He had just found Marama again when a hurricane hit the island...
...free ticket to his or her home town, a bonus of between 100 and 500 rubles ($20 and $100), and an honorary badge proclaiming the redemption. Next, the Order of Lenin, most exalted of all Soviet decorations, was awarded to 40 of the 404 officials who had acted as jailers and supervisors of the 55,000 during their forced-labor redemption. It was suddenly revealed for the first time that new Vice-Commissar for the Timber Industry Kogan acted as a jailer in the digging of the Baltic-White Sea Canal-something workers in the Timber Commissariat had never suspected...