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...solid citizens of Hadleyville are not so civic-minded. When the marshal tries to deputize a posse against Gunman Miller, everyone in Hadleyville finds excuses. Even the marshal's Quaker wife walks out on him because she is against killing. In Ramirez' saloon, they are laying odds that the marshal is dead five minutes after Miller gets off the noon train. Left high & dry in a town paralyzed by fear and morally bankrupt, the sweating marshal has to face Miller and three of his fellow desperadoes alone. Around this dramatic situation is built that Hollywood rarity: a taut...
...trial went on, one boy after another described the sort of thing that goes on inside the adobe walls of Fort Grant. One boy testified that the superintendent had ordered him to hold on to two doorknobs, then lashed him with a fan belt. Another witness accused Guard Rudy Ramirez of going into inmates' rooms at night and whipping them for no apparent reason. "I saw [him] beat and kick another boy," said the witness. "He kicked him with his feet when he was down on the ground...
...third witness took the stand and told how he had been beaten by Ramirez with a blackjack. Two boys who had once run away said that, when caught, they were made to walk barefoot for 8½ hours while guards rode behind them in a truck. Other runaways' heads were shaved and they were put to work, barefooted and bareheaded, in a patch of bullheads (a prickly form of sandbur). At the end of 18 days in the August sun, their heads were blistered, and one boy had blood poisoning from a wound on his foot...
Behind the Woodpile. The six defendants protested that the boys were exaggerating. But under crossexamination, they conceded that most of the details were true. Guard Ramirez admitted he had used a blackjack. Guards Terry Quinn and Albert Allen admitted that they had dragged two boys behind a woodpile and taken turns lashing them with a fan belt. Even Superintendent Ridgway confessed he used the whip. "But none of the boys that I know of limped after they were whipped." Besides, said the defense, the law allows "reasonable corporal punishment," and Fort Grant is certainly reasonable...
Careless Love. In Bogotá, Colombia, Matilde Ramirez applied for a marriage license and learned that she was already legally married because her ex-fiancé, using their previous license to marry another girl, had not bothered to change the names...