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...Phial By Jury. In Pittsburgh, Criminal Court Tipstaff Oresto Parco tongue-lashed a jury, which had been locked up for two days pondering a murder case, for throwing water out the window onto a pedestrian...
...rnberg prison, Bach-Zelewski explained, he had kept the three phials of cyanide which all SS commanders regularly carried, for use in case of capture. Because he was a witness, not a prisoner, guards had not searched him. When Göring, who occupied the opposite cell, asked Bach-Zelewski for some poison, the general obliged. One day, as they met in the corridor, Bach-Zelewski slipped the phial to Göring under cover of a handshake. It was hidden inside a bar of G.I. laundry soap...
...transaction, according to Bach-Zelewski, was quite impersonal. "I had no relations with Göring and did not like him," he said, "but he was the first to ask me for the poison." Bach-Zelewski gave another phial to a fellow SS general, who later committed suicide. The third, still imbedded in the bar of soap, he handed to U.S. intelligence officers last week...
...Nurnberg last week an official announcement explained-partly-how Hermann Goring had managed to cheat the gallows with a phial of potassium cyanide crushed in his mouth two hours before execution time. He had had the poison, the report said, on his person when captured, and had managed to keep it hidden during the whole 17 months of his captivity...
...phial of potassium cyanide was all Hermann Göring needed to cheat the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). The poison is a favorite with suicides. It is quick: five grains kill in 15 minutes; a heavier dose will do the job in two. Unless given immediately, antidotes are useless...