Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guards and reached the courtroom, to discover that she had forgotten to take a .38 caliber revolver out of her handbag. She could have leaned over and shot Göring -or the Chief Justice. But Colonel Andrus puttered about, occasionally stealing a dentist's tool from the prison dentist's office, just to see if it would be missed. It always...
...elaborate schemes were not necessary. The number of people who had opportunity to give poison to Göring were legion. There were German doctors, cooks and laundry workers. While working in the prison they were forbidden to go outside, but they had contact with people from outside. Then there was the courtroom itself: during recesses throngs of people milled about the dock and papers were passed back & forth. Not since the day Göring entered Nürnberg prison was he forced to submit to a rectal examination. Other parts of his body (his ears, for instance) went...
...German reporters came in, dripping wet, from a rainswept rooftop that overlooked the prison wall. To the U.P.'s Clinton Conger and the ü German DANA Agency, who had posted them, they reported seeing groups of helmeted men moving from the jail to the gymnasium. They had heard a bell toll, heard a crashing sound repeated only six times. The Germans surmised that the eleven Nazis had probably been hanged in pairs - but Conger decided to wait before filing...
...hanging all eleven Nazis, but quickly killed the flashes. The chosen eight newsmen who were in at the deaths knew about Göring - but the Allied Control Commission kept them incommunicado. It was three and a half hours after the final hanging before puffing Colonel Burton C. Andrus, prison commandant, shamefacedly told reporters outside - and the world - that Göring had cheated the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). It had been a memorable, unhappy night for everybody - including those who lived through...
...Legal Mind. In San Francisco, Attorney General Robert W. Kenny ruled that prison-made handiwork, available to the public, could not be sold to other convicts. His reason: "public" means people "at large...