Word: turnkey
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...morning last week Turnkey Sam Cahoon was distributing soap to the prisoners taking morning exercise. Suddenly, Dillinger's stick of wood, whittled into the shape of a pistol and blacked with shoe polish, poked into Turnkey Cahoon's back. Cowed by the wooden weapon, he yielded up the jail's keys, was forced to call the deputy sheriff, who called the warden. Within 15 minutes Dillinger had 33 trusties, prisoners, jailers, wardens and special guards locked securely in the cells...
...convicts ran out into the rotunda, shooting down a guard as they ran, firing shots at the warden and his deputy. As the warden ran to sound the alarm they cornered a turnkey, took the keys to the buildings, headed for the main gate. Before they reached it the alarms began to go off and guards closed in on them. They swerved, rushed into a factory building, held up two guards, and keeping the guards and 30 other prisoners as hostages, locked themselves in the third floor of the building. There they prepared to fight...
...masked Cartersvillians overpowered the local turnkey, departed in a motorcade with John Willie Clark. At dawn, police found his body strung from a telephone-pole a mile away-i 7th U. S. lynchee this year, Georgia's third in a month...
...peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder, and a turnkey. A lull comes at nightfall while a searchlight sweeps the grated windows; there are three rebels left and only two bullets. Hope has long since gone. Even the shooting of the warden had been an act not so much of hope as of protest against a life in which such a steely...
...sniping continued. Floodlights were arranged to prevent a night sortie. The convicts asked for a doctor. The Prison Physician went in to them and he found a whole night's work. Nine men, including Turnkey Singleton, lay dead. Four more were dying. Thirty-one convicts were wounded, one of whom died while the doctor was amputating...