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...changed identities, Author Dennis shows himself at his best. Vinson's is a sad case. Back from the war he finds the old England swept away: "All the initials have gone from inside the bowler hats." With mystic joy he accepts the unpaid, unwanted post of Co-Warden of the Badgeries, an ancient symbolic office whose sole relic is a stuffed badger. Hardly has his new identity begun to cover him when he is killed as he falls on a pike during a symbolic parade to the glory of symbolic England that was. Just as sad is the case...
Never Call Retreat. In Helena, Mont. charged with shooting a bear out of season, Willis Kroll at first claimed self-defense, changed his plea and was fined $52.50 when Game Warden William Eckerson testified that the animal had been potted in the tail...
Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...
When Abdias' shock wore off, "murderer" and victim embraced, swore everlasting friendship, went arm in arm to see the warden. José told the astounded official what had happened, explained that a band of sugar workers had found him rifling the pockets of his unconscious victim and presumed Abdias dead. Turned over to local police and shunted from one backwoods station house to another, José, too, had thought the man dead, and had finally been convicted on the testimony of the sugar workers and his own confession despite the absence of a corpse. "This is highly irregular," murmured...
They collected kitchen knives, cleavers, axes, shovels, scissors, hacksaw blades and night sticks. They let all the prisoners they could out of their cells, and directed the preparation of food for prisoners and hostages alike. Associate Warden Bezzerides suggested that he outline their demands. In a shaky hand, he wrote: "Confinement without hope is pointless. Accordingly, we would like to discuss our difficulties from the standpoint of some kind of therapeutic treatments for the men doing time for rules infractions...