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...toward 9, men bared their heads, and the crowd broke into Abide with Me and the 23rd Psalm. As shop shutters rumbled open and milk bottles clinked in the streets of London, Derek Bentley went to the gallows. Within minutes the prison gates opened with a clang, and a warder emerged with the traditional black-framed notice board: "The judgment of death was this day executed ..." The crowd surged forward with an angry roar; someone smashed the notice board. After half an hour's scuffling, the police-using only their fists-were able to disperse the demonstrators...
...believed. When someone lets a cosh fall on a bench in court ... it makes one shudder to think of the effect of it on a human head." A longtime believer in corporal punishment, Judge Goddard asked for the return of the birch, which, when "laid on by a chief warder who knew his business, not only gave them a taste of something unpleasant, but led to considerable ridicule." Tory Lord Chancellor Simonds protested that Judge Goddard's proposal "would put the clock back 100 years." A newspaper poll of M.P.s showed opinion dividing on party lines: Conservatives...
Died. Mrs. Alice Warder Garrett, sixtyish, great lady of Baltimore society and widow of John W. Garrett, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Italy; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A longtime patron of the arts, she was the main support of Baltimore's Musical Arts Quartet, a chamber music group for which she built a special theater in her home...
...moment Fuchs stood still in the dock, then a warder tapped him on the back and he turned, mechanically tapping his yellow note sheets into a neat pile which he slipped into his coat pocket. As he left the court, for the first time since he had faced justice Fuchs's pale cheeks showed spots of color-of excitement or possibly of shame...
That was three months ago. Since then Warder Johns has trapped 16 more wild Tower cats which he believes to be the atavistic descendants of pet tabbies kept by troops stationed there during the last war. Last week he was setting his traps for the last of them...