Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What began last fortnight as Spain's least bloody election in years was swelling last week into horrid crescendos of threatened social upheaval, secession and civil war. Overnight 30,000 political prisoners came bustling out of jail. They included the furious Catalonian secessionist, "President" Luis Companys, who had just begun to serve a 30-year stretch in a grim Andalusian prison for having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more...
...Canon City, Colo.'s prison, Warden Roy Best invited 100 convicts to watch the gas chamber execution of a pig in rehearsal of the execution of Murderer Otis McDaniels the following night. Said the Warden: "It gave them a mental picture for reference purposes of death in the gas chamber." Said McDaniels, excluded from the test execution: "I would have liked to have seen it." Following night the Warden invited a picked handful of convicts to watch the death of McDaniels...
...trail of Bugle Ann's footsteps stopping at the interloper's gate made Spring feel that his neighbor had killed his lady. Therefore he killed the interloper with a bullet from his lever-action Winchester and was unmoved when they sent him to state's prison for 20 years. When he got out in four, he found that Camden had the explanation for his pardon, and for the ghost of Bugle Ann which ran the woods the night of his return. So nearly a scenario was Kantor's novel that Samuel Hoffenstein and Harvey Gates could...
...Prisoner of Shark Island (Twentieth Century-Fox). Suggested to Producer Darryl Zanuck by a story in TIME (Feb. 4, 1935), this picture investigates the sad case of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd. On April 15, 1865, two horsemen galloped up to Dr. Mudd's door in Charles County, Md. and asked for help. One had a broken leg; Dr. Mudd set it. Later that day the horsemen galloped away. The injured one was John Wilkes Booth. For his services, Dr. Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other...
...Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall...