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Everyone involved cooperated with Judge Johnson's idea. Said Warden Jerome Waters, as he shut Kimbrell in a cell: "You will have plenty of time to meditate. Get on your knees and pray!" Kimbrell replied, with tears in his eyes: "Please God, make me a man from now on." He was marched to meals with other prisoners. He was asked to sit, experimentally, in the electric chair, did so, and said: "It made my flesh crawl." He was introduced to one Carl De Wolf, soon to be electrocuted for shooting a Tulsa detective. De Wolf rose to the occasion...
...Lord Warden. The crisis Britain faced had none of the sharp, agonizing pain of Dunkirk. It was. rather, a dull ache brought on by years of seeming hopelessness and actual attrition. A new Churchillian call for blood, sweat, toil and tears might not now find the same response as it had before, but for the moment at least, there was reassurance in the old familiar, dogged smile beneath the square black hat. There was an encouraging echo of the good old days in the sight of Churchill making the V sign from his big, black Humber, the red, blue & gold...
...when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
...knives sneaked out of the prison shoeshop, they wounded two guards. But tear gas stopped them. Then the five were marched to the prison gymnasium, were stripped, examined by a physician and shackled over the "grey mare," a wooden gym horse. As the doctor stood by, the warden himself and guards took turns walloping the five where mother used to spank. Their lash was a leather strap 6 inches wide and 2%½ feet long...
...injury. Said one simply: "We gambled and lost." Newspapers and many Coloradans did not accept the floggings so matter of factly. This week, beset by critics, Governor Thornton and the state prison board outlawed flogging at Canon City. Not yet decided: whether to take any action against the flogging warden...