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...place for a merciful jailer was La Rotunda, which specialized in El Benemerito's two favorite brands of torture: the tortol, a rope knotted and tightened about the victim's forehead until his skull cracked; the cepo, in which a rifle, tied under his knees with a rope looped around his neck, was jumped on until the vertebrae parted...
French, who had been drinking, entered without knocking, muttered some unintelligible words and fired point blank at McCracken. He then went to a neighbor's house where he surrendered to Night Jailer George Kelly who took him to jail. To Deputy Sheriff C. R. Serper at the jail he said, "I have stood all the insults to my family I can stand," would say nothing more. McCracken was rushed to the hospital where his wife collapsed, recovered and aided the surgeons. She stood by until McCracken died two hours later...
Another case was that of a swindler, Neil, who succeded in getting his jailer to have a few drinks while Neil was being taken east, got him then to go to a burlesque show, after which the evening wound up by Neil putting the warden to bed. The convict was next heard of when he posed as a movie actor and made a personal appearance in New Orleans...
Just after one midnight last week Sheriff Louis Corbitt of Henry County, Ala. and Jailer J. N. Corbitt. his father, asleep in their first-floor bedrooms below the rooms at Abbeville that serve as county jail, were awakened by a great racket outside. Before they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they...
...from Siberia were always theatrically brilliant, in contrast to the methodical escapes at the same period of Djhugashvili who is now called Stalin. Bronstein, when Tsarist Russia finally got too hot for him, escaped on a forged passport in which he whimsically gave himself the name of his last jailer, "Trotsky...