Word: jailers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another New Mexico campaign. Sandoval County Republicans pondered promises by Julio Tenorio, a candidate for sheriff, that prisoners would not be beaten by "my under sheriff or deputies" but would be "well guarded so they will not be able to escape twice a week or beat the jailer," then voted for Tenorio's opponent, Rudy Montoya...
Analysis of the Id. In St. Joseph, Mo., Prisoner Lester Penney asked Jailer Pete Murphy to give him a lie-detector test, explained that he had been drinking for 25 years and "I think I want to stop; my idea is to take the test to see if I'm lying to myself...
Late one night last week, a slight, balding man with a hawklike nose, wearing a sharp gabardine suit and the air of an English butler, emerged from the jailer's office at the East Cambridge, Mass, jail and barked, "Gimme an aspirin, will you?" He was Joseph James ("Specs") O'Keefe, 47, and he had been talking almost continuously for three days. Outside, on the streets of Boston and all over the U.S., newspapers repeated Specs' story in huge headlines and minute detail; after six years, the $2,775,395 Brink's Inc. robbery, the largest...
Another clever piece of casting was the contrast between Altshul's heartiness and the effective combination of foolishness and sinisterness with which Paul Burkhardt played the part of "head jailer and assistant tormentor" Wilfred Shadbold. James Greene as Leonard Meryll and Al Hudson as Sir Richard Cholomondeley were adequate in supporting roles. Headsman James Gale was macabre...
France's 7,000 jailers were proud of their posts but dissatisfied with their rewards. The question was: How does a jailer go on strike? Last week, in 120 prisons throughout the country, they found a way. They went on a sit-in strike...