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...stone ice-cold cell, held there incommunicado for 28, hours "Bertillioned," beaten sneered at, threatened with sexual assault, witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there, lost her voice from fright, scared by a huge police dog being sicked onto her, kept from a toilet all the 28 hours, flung into a filthy bath tub where the outlet was plugged up from vomit broken teeth and the hair of other victims, and on top of it all, caught pleurisy, from which she nearly died in Brussels, and was fiat on her back for two months...
...disease when Bardamn arrives on Broadway, New York, disappointment is sure to be profound. Broadway is promptly described as "a running sore." The tip-off is complete when, after one or two deprecative observations on what Americans are proud to call "The Main Stem," Bardamn pops into a public toilet. Now there is a subject for you! The author gives it as many pages as Broadway itself...
...people. Two, three, four families pack into one flat. In summer the heat is stifling. In winter icicles from burst plumbing form on the hall ceilings. Refuse piles up in airshafts 15 feet deep. Basements are cluttered with rags and tinder. The better tenements have one toilet to a floor, but when one block was recently razed, the only sanitary facility discovered was a row of holes in a board in the backyard. Garbage is tossed out windows. In some, a match struck in the halls will illumine the foul air as if it were a fog. Death, pestilence, starvation...
Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting...
...swarthy gunman named Joie Rao, kept sleek and well-pressed by his underlings. Rao, onetime boxer, was shaving when Deputy Commissioner Marcus ordered him to get along with the rest of his henchmen to solitary cells. Prisoner Rao insolently remarked that he would when he finished his toilet. Deputy Marcus, a boxer in his time at West Point, made short shrift of that kind of talk...