Word: maillefert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon of June 3, Arthur Maillefert, 22. of Westfield. N. J., serving nine years for stealing $30. was found strangled to death in the "sweatbox" of Duval County's Sunbeam prison camp. A sweatbox is a windowless outdoor solitary confinement cell little bigger than a coffin. According to Florida law it should be 3 ft. broad. There should be ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife...
Convict Harry Schneider (one of the last to see Maillefert alive in the box) "I said 'Jersey, it looks like they got you in a pretty tight spot.' He made a motion like he was going to hang himself. . . . Almost every day he said he was 'just as well off dead as to stay there and work...
Captain Courson (telling of his reluctance to discipline Maillefert even after he had refused to work with the road gang)" Jersey said, 'Captain, I done served my sentence. I don't intend to hit another damned lick.' I told him, 'No sir, your time is not made. You were sentenced here for nine years and my job is to see you do it.' Jersey said, 'I've served my time. If you don't kill me you're yellow.' I told him I must be yellow then because...
Another convict-Higginbotham said he would rather kill Maillefert than...