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Further to gain favor with the authorities, Prisoner Bell next day warned the gaol-warden of a plotted escape by Prisoner William ("Blackie") Lenhardt, murderer, and two accomplices. Searchers found the bars of Lenhardt's cell sawed, a loaded automatic pistol...
...Three! has for its principal character one Nordson (Arthur Byron, warden of The Criminal Code), motor tycoon, whose young U. S. guest has secretly married a taxidriver. It takes Mr. Byron upwards of an hour and a great deal of telephoning and ordering about to get the driver transformed into a gentleman financier, suitable to the young lady's parents, whose arrival is imminent...
...Negro had attacked her. Immediately a posse of 1,000 formed, followed bloodhounds to the County Stockade, a chaingang prison-camp. There the sheriff arrested five Negroes, took them before the nine-year-old for identification. She picked Willie Kirkland, 20, convict doing time for horse-stealing. The warden said Kirkland had not been out of the Stockade all that day. When Kirkland was returned to the camp, a mob of 75 gathered, including the nine-year-old's father. The sheriff decided to take his prisoner to a nearby town for safekeeping, emerged with him. The girl...
...opinion, some intellectual arrogance, and some close-mindedness, but these would appear as they are, merely as blemishes upon the portrait. Each college generation has it within its power to refine or to smudge this portrait." Horrid Picture. More doleful was the outlook of eloquent, beetle-browed little Warden Bernard Iddings Bell of St. Stephens College (New York), whose views appear in the current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school and college . . . are, to be sure, sources of joy; but still the horrid...
...parents, he kills the uncle, is tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Later the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. The long years in prison are made livable by the dreams in which Mimsey visits him. One night she fails to come; Mimsey is dead. Peter goes berserk, attacks a warden, is committed to an insane asylum. Before he dies Mimsey comes to him again in the guise of an old woman. He meets Death happily...