Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bethea, who raped and strangled a 70-year-old white woman, was Kentucky's only female sheriff, plump, matronly Mrs. Florence Thompson. When her husband died four months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to her. It thus became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose I will spend the rest of my life forgetting...
...were festooned with spectators. By 4:30 a. m. the crowd crushed through the wire fence around the scaffold. Police had a hard time getting Phil Hanna from Illinois, whose knowledge of knots has made him a distinguished necessity at 80 hangings, to the gallows. Businesslike, he tested the trap three times, found it good...
...like to die with my shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing...
...biggest seller. Also in Elkhart is big Martin Band Instrument Co., whose founder walked there after being burned out in the Chicago fire in 1871, got a job with Conn, branched out with his five sons in 1907. In Elkhart, too, is Leedy Manufacturing Co., famed for its trap drums. No. 1 U. S. drum maker is Chicago's Ludwig & Ludwig...
...however, highly genial, rapid and unimportant melodrama, laid mostly on a train, dealing with the efforts of Duke Benson (Douglas Fowley), a public enemy with a national rating, to collect a sweepstakes prize. An insouciant G-Man (Brian Donlevy) traps him by publishing an advertisement announcing that someone else has won the prize and is about to sell the ticket. Before the trap is sprung, Benson has been seen shooting a train conductor (also a G-Man) and rousing the jealousy of his girl Jeanie (Isabel Jewell) with his attentions to Anne (Gloria Stuart). The cast is made...