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With nice regard for the golf club's sensibilities, the cops housed the gallows in a corrugated iron stockade with only the gallows bar peeping over the top. Nearby, in a makeshift corrugated iron cell, they penned eight Mau Mau tribesmen, convicted of the murder of three officials: a Negro policeman, a Negro agricultural adviser and a Kikuyu headman...
...morning of execution, five armed warders and an African priest entered the death cell. The murderers chucked them out and, screaming like madmen, attacked the cell walls with bleeding hands and feet. After two hours' battering, the eight frightened convicted men burst out on to the fairway. They found themselves in the middle of a square of 100 armed policemen, with rifles at the ready...
Kearney also denied a report yesterday that committee investigators will be sent here within the next few weeks to follow up leads developed in the recent hearings and to seek new witnesses and information on the alleged pre-war University cell...
Kearney said the inference that there is a Communist cell here now was drawn only from Furry's refusal to answer a question on this point. The congressman stated his last question to Furry was, "Is there now a Communist cell at Harvard?" Kearney said the professor answered, "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate...
Kearney said that as far as he know the committee was turough, at least temporarily, with its hearings on the pre-war Red cell. He said he know of no plans to call more witnesses on this phase of the committee's probe. Yesterday, the group met in executive session and was concerned with other matters...