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...fellow inmates at Paris' sprawling La Santé prison. They eye Gaspard with suspicion. He seems too soft, too ready to please. He is accused of attempting to kill the wife who supported him while he dallied with her teenage sister. Can this fancy boy be trusted? His cell mates decide to risk it, and cut Gaspard in on their plan to dig their way to freedom...
Ingeniously improvising, the prisoners of La Santé rig up dummies with movable limbs to fill their places at lights-out. One man stands watch at the cell door with a periscope fashioned from a toothbrush and a shard of mirror. A piece of a metal bunk serves as a digging tool. Two stolen medicine bottles filled with sand make an hourglass to time the long, seemingly hopeless task of chipping through concrete sewer walls and treacherous rock. On the afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours...
...could expect the absolute maximum: six months in jail, twelve months in the county work camp, and a $1,000 fine. Hipped on Race. To her amazement, and Pye's ire, Defendant Hall escaped. Armed with a writ of habeas corpus, U.S. marshals whisked her out of her cell and freed her on $1,000 bond. "The United States Government has taken said defendant away," roared Judge Pye. "The court is physically unable to proceed with the trial." The court also was unable to try 58 other civil rights defendants who flew the coop by federal court orders. Last...
...week Justice Welch was haled before a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City, along with retired Supreme Court Justice N. S. Corn. Result: both judges were indicted for income tax evasion-$11,063 for Corn, $13,365 for Welch. If convicted, Justice Welch will quit the bench for a cell for a maximum of 25 years, pay a possible $50,000 fine...
...motels. Next day, while sitting in at a segregated motel dining room with five Negroes, she was arrested for trespassing, being an undesirable guest, and conspiracy. Rather than post a $450 cash bond, Mrs. Peabody chose to spend two nights and two days in a St. Augustine jail cell with six other women. At week's end she was back north, leaving the St. Augustine situation unimproved but vowing "I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom...