Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tombs' Prison...
Captured (Warner). Into a German prison camp come two British officers, Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Between their captures, time enough has elapsed for Fairbanks to discover that he loves Howard's wife and that she loves him. This makes incarceration with Howard intolerable to Fairbanks and he impulsively escapes by cutting a few lines of barbed wire, running to a nearby German airdrome, hitting a mechanic on the chin and flying home. But even in War-time international law operates to extradite civilians and soldiers charged with rape and murder. On the night of Fairbanks' escape...
...ring has taken steps to squash "defeatism," denning it as "any kind of work or deed that is contrary to praise of the present regime. . . . Persons making such remarks may be designated as killjoys. . . . Killjoys will be treated as camouflaged Marxists" [i. e. marched off to Nazi prison camps...
Frank was removed to the State Prison Farm at Milledgeville on June 20, 1915. On the night of July 17, William Creen, a murderer serving a life sentence, slashed Frank's throat with a butcher knife. "I guess they've got me," groaned Frank, blood pouring from his jugular vein. But they had not yet "got" him. Physicians took 25 stitches in his neck, saved his life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan...
...first jail sentence, received for sleeping on the highway. On the second night of his imprisonment Parker began to shout that he must get out of jail, even if it meant getting into a coffin. Next morning at exercise he fell into a frenzy. Brought before the prison's acting governor, he was sentenced to three days in solitary confinement. As two guards led him toward the silence cell, he struggled frantically fell injured himself. Fifteen minutes later he was dead. The prison physician affirmed that "the prisoner was a healthy man of average intelligence and sound mind...