Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Yankwich: "Who was to be the Holy Ghost?" Witness Jewett: "Mr. Hunt didn't say."* After several days of such maundering testimony, with Attorney MacBeth subpoenaing but not delivering Aimee Semple McPherson as an "expert"' witness, Defendant Hunt was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison...
Temperamental, volatile, they loved and quarreled violently. In one tantrum, she reported his crimes. He admitted his guilt and went to prison for having contributed to the delinquency of a minor. She wrote to him during the eleven months of his confinement and after he was paroled she went back to live with him in Indio, Calif, where he, a skilled electrician, onetime technical chief of Radio Station KFI, had found work as electrical foreman on an aqueduct...
Brown's right hand froze to the metal cassette and table. He had neglected to turn off the supply of electricity, and 75,000 volts, 37 times as powerful as prison executioners use in electric chairs, poured through him. Electric chairs use five amperes of electricity, X-ray machines only one-tenth of an ampere, and although that small unit rushed through him like straws blown by a tornado, sturdy Frank Brown had strength enough to haul his stiffened left hand away from the X-ray tube to tug at his right hand frozen to the metal. The current...
...told of the Majorca expedition being withdrawn, mentioned Italian bombing planes, people in Iviza knew what was coming. One Sunday noon it came-four planes dropping bombs. Fifty-five (42 of them women and children, says Paul) were killed. In a rage of revenge, Government guards massacred their rebel prisoners. Paul went into Iviza next day to find out what was going on, saw scores of dead bodies on the floor of the prison. He recognized many of the faces. By that time he was ready to go. When a German destroyer came to evacuate foreigners he took his family...
There it was discovered that the assaulter was no ordinary brawler but Manuel Oyon, a onetime Venezuelan judge. The assaulted was General Jorge Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan...