Word: lifers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind the last barricade one Steven Pawlak, lifer, stood up. "Go to hell," he snarled. Troopers crossed the barricade after the last wooden-sounding machine gun volley. They found all the last six rebels dead in a pile. Warden Jennings, dragged to safety when the convicts charged the gate, was dizzy from gas and a clubbing but all right. Nine guards and convicts had been killed, many others injured. After the break Governor Roosevelt said: "We have three commissions working on the problem now. I would name a fourth if it would do any good." He announced that seven captured...
...been in jail since April, 1925. Calendars since then had recorded some 790 different days, but those days had all been much the same to him. They would continue so, too, for he was a lifer. He would be there, in the common phrase, "from now on." Surely an unworthy end for David Curtis Stephenson who through many years had controlled the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which had controlled the politics of Indiana. In the Republican State Convention of 1924 he had patrolled the aisles of the convention hall with a gun on his hip. The men whom...
...John Lynch, life resident of Sing Sing Prison for a murder, was permitted- handcuffed and accompanied by a guard-to attend the funeral of his brother, James ("One-Eye") Lynch, executed in Trenton, N. J., two days before, for a murder. A sharp-eared (or sentimental) news-gatherer heard Lifer Lynch mutter beside the bier: "It doesn...
Three years ago, one Fred Brown kept two Nebraska girls chained in a hut for two days. A rescuer appeared, whom Brown also chained up. Finally the rescuer escaped, notified the police, and Brown became a "lifer" at Lincoln, Neb., penitentiary...
...less. After all, the possession of a fund of associations does a great deal to make life pleasant; it is for their wealth of associations that good books are valuable. In the plastic days of youth, a three months sentence to reading has a good chance of becoming a "lifer...