Word: jailers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double murder, he was whisked away to the Bledsoe County jail. The sheriff was away, so a young woman cook, temporarily in charge, locked him up. Within the hour, three men appeared and solemnly assured the cook that James was wanted back at the reformatory. The inexperienced jailer gave her prisoner...
When he stamped his foot, the rat dropped the object - a $10 bill. Calling the jailer, he paid his fine, walked out of jail, bought more whiskey, was back in jail that night...
...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...