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...come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill as a butcher, drained the brother's blood into a crock. Silvertop is reprieved (and thereupon tries to hang himself in his cell), but the Quare Fellow is doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jig on the Trap | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Chain of Command. In Newcastle, England, Farmer Charles Silvertop, 36, fined ?150 ($420) for drunkenly persuading the pilot of a chartered plane to dive at a ship in the Irish Sea, explained: 'While the captain of the ship is always the captain, I regarded myself as the admiral, having chartered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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