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Fleitas was quickly locked up in the capital's penitentiary, in cell block "H," called murderers' row. Now meek, he pleaded: "Be fair with me. I shot in self-defense." The police found no weapon on Gallostra...
...then computes the distance the victim must drop to meet the legal requirement that three cervical vertebrae be fractured or dislocated to snap the spinal cord and bring quick death. Ellis does not see the prisoner until a few minutes before the hanging when he steps into the death cell, quietly says "good morning" and straps the man's arms behind his back...
...outstanding achievement was the discovery of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia in 1926. Not only did he realize that a liver diet could reduce the seriousness of this red-blood cell deficiency, but he spend many years extracting the effective fraction of liver and making it commercially available for the medical profession...
...Skardon and other witnesses had given testimony, Chief Magistrate Sir Lawrence Dunne remanded Fuchs to stand trial for treason at the Feb. 28 Old Bailey criminal sessions. The hearing at Bow Street had taken just two hours. The proceedings over, Fuchs walked out of the courtroom, back to his cell, looking like a harmless, nondescript scientist whom one might see in any laboratory. Despite his harmless look, despite repentance of a sort, Dr. Klaus Fuchs still bore Communism's indelible brand-NASH...
...cast tries hard for plausibility and Director Robert (The Killers') Siodmak builds tension in some of the courtroom scenes, e.g., when the morbidly curious camera paces Barbara from a cell in the county jail, across a crowded street and up three flights of courthouse stairs to hear the jury's verdict. But taut detail is not enough to prop up the essential fudge-and-marshmallow of character and concept...