Word: turnkeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...