Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robber-not a Rapist'' De Boe. No professional, no executioner, Mr. Hanna is a gentleman farmer who lives on land that has been in the family since 1808. . . . He has assisted at some 65 hangings (he does not recall the exact number), has never sprung a trap. Years ago, the revolting sight of a public strangulation as a result of an incorrectly tied noose led Mr. Hanna on a later occasion to offer his knowledge of rope-tying to the White County sheriff. He has since performed the same service elsewhere in Illinois, in Kentucky and, I believe...
...were going down to Paducah for a dance when he marched up the 13 steps to the scaffold to become the first white man hanged for rape in Kentucky's history. What took place between the time he reached the gallows and the time the trap was sprung made news from coast to coast...
...Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove that Brigstock was insane. Nonetheless the trap was due to drop under Brigstock at 9 a. m. one day last week in South London's Wandsworth Prison...
...Three loudspeaker vans were already driving back & forth blaring out "Abide With Me". A mob of 50 sandwich men paraded with signs. Mrs. Van der Elst's supreme inspiration, three airplanes zoomed above the prison, trailing banners, "Stop the Death Sentence." Promptly at 9 o'clock, the trap dropped under Murderer Brigstock. "Gentlemen remove your hats," Cried Mrs. Van der Elst, falling on her knees. Later she said: "I pay ?12,000 ($60,000) income tax and I have a right to be heard by the Government. I am going to protest against every execution in England from...
...political strength is that he is a cross between an unscrupulous Bryan and a political Barnum, a realist as well as an exhibitionist. He is a buffoon by policy but in his own line he is as smart as a steel trap. He has conclusively demonstrated that in Louisiana by finding a hundred ingenious ways to turn the institutions of democracy into the tools of absolute dictatorship. He is a master of writing jokers into laws. In the U. S. Senate he has made himself in three short years a master of parliamentary tricks...