Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one 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...
...good family with three of us in the new Who's Who. Homer Clyde Snook is a great electro-physicist. John S. Snook was a member of the 57th and 58th Congresses. And John Wilson Snook owns a 506 acre livestock ranch at Baker, Idaho, and is Prison Warden at Salmon, Idaho. People here in the East don't seem to know about the Snook family, and I hope you will print this so they will. MONTAGUE MORTON SNOOK New York...
...with their scissors. One thing remained. They must help Nathan F. Leopold Jr., the boy who killed for a thrill, escape with them. "His old man has lots of cash," they said, "he will set us up." But young Leopold was padlocked in solitary confinement for stealing the prison's sugar. They could not open his cell; he would have to be left behind...
...life, and thus listened too readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison" in the Crimea her sister the Dowager Empress of Russia...
...delivered at Havana; whereupon at Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, the Cuban Minister, whose trunks had been packed, ordered them unpacked again. Many a Cuban plebeian, unconscious that the national honor had been saved, learned with ogreish interest of how an iron screw was slowly turned in the Santiago prison last week. The screw tightened a steel collar fitted with an iron spike and encircling the neck of Quesado Castillo, a Negro who had murdered his wife and daughter. At 6:03 a. m. the garrote began to contract. At 6:11½ a.m. Castillo was pronounced dead...