Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warden William ("Bill") Mills, one-time footballer for Temple University, onetime superintendent (1920-33) of Philadelphia's none too savory police force, denied all knowledge of how it could have happened. He declared he had been out for a jog in the woods the morning the bodies were found, could not have been more surprised. He shut himself up in his house and tried to wash his hands of the whole horrid affair. Two guards-Alfred Brough and Francis Smith-were held on homicide charges by the Coroner, who promised eight arrests of guards and "higher-ups" after...
...fellow students. Some of them lived in towers like mine. They have spread out all over, like files, buzzing here, crawling there. None of them know what they want, and are all afraid. Tell me, you are a newcomer here: do you fear anything...
California law provides that each death sentence has automatic appeal to the Supreme Court before final judgement is made and date of execution set. At that time none on condemned row had gone through the Supreme Court. At date of this letter my appeal is still before the Court. In cases where the Supreme Court upholds conviction it usually is a matter of 3 to 4 months before actual execution takes place...
...which usually take them to work, then were told they had better walk, since the army had commandeered the busses. Even mail trucks of the German Post Office stopped delivering letters, began delivering soldiers, reservists and supplies. As men called to the colors left their jobs all over Germany, none knowing how soon he could return, German women were sent to fill many of the vacancies...
...Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed by lightning...