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...introduced him as "Mister" Sinclair to Dr. Morris Hyman, the prison physician, and to Miss Mary Kathleen Wright, the prison nurse. Miss Wright, 24, blonde, from Eastport, Me., was soon described as "pretty," "charming," "petite," etc., etc., etc., in newspapers throughout the land. "These are your bosses," said Jailer Peake. No. 10,520 nodded cheerfully...
...rich man, Elverton R. Chapman, had been placed in the same jail for a similar offense. Convict Chap man had a two-cell suite, Persian carpets, special furniture, meals from outside. Maj. William L. Peake, Superintendent of the Washington jail, said Sinclair would be allowed no such luxuries. Declared Jailer Peake...
...only $1 left, but I was determined to get back to New Orleans and the comforts of my home as quickly as possible. So I borrowed $6 from a jailer and arrived back in New Orleans Saturday forenoon, just in time to read that Gov. Long had withdrawn his reprieve, and that there might be a hanging...
Thence the Amir was obliged to move to the Grand Hotel. Reason: He wished to call upon "The Prisoner of the Vatican," and no caller is received who comes directly from official premises of the Italian State, the hypothetical "jailer" of His Holiness. Amir Amanullah, although a Mohammedan, accepted amid pomp from the Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, the "Order of the Golden Spur...
...priest and three Roman Catholic youths sat in a cell in Mexico City, last week, solemnly munching a breakfast of eggs fried with red and green peppers, coarse bread, and steaming coffee. As the last morsels disappeared their jailer entered. He had waited until after breakfast, he said, so as not to spoil the young men's appetites. Since they had breakfasted, however, it became his duty to inform all four that they would be led out into the prison garden later that morning, and stood up one by one before a firing squad...