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...imported Murder Novelist Craig Rice from California to worry over the accused. Readers jumped aboard with letters full of theories, shudders, lectures on psychology, morals and English usage. While psychiatrists candled the accused's head, the city focused on its ugly old Cook County jail. There in cell No. 59, husky, sullen, 17-year-old William Heirens sat with his head in his hands...
...cell Bill fumed and sweated for lack of a witness. But all the people who had actually seen George had died of the view...
That career had started more than 40 years before in a Czarist cell, where he had been jailed for revolutionary activities. Son of a Lithuanian merchant, grandson of a rabbi, he migrated from Russia to England and thence...
...executioner was crowding fate. For the first time in 24 tries, the chair failed to work. Convicted murderer Francis walked back to his cell to pray, and eat candy, and remember...
...death cell at Lethbridge, Schwalb said: "Canada will never hang us. It was so stupid of you people to spend all that money on trials for us, because we are going to get off." But Schwalb was wrong. One midnight last week the guards marched him twelve steps to the gallows, strapped him hand & foot. Schwalb stiffened to attention, and shouted in English: "My führer, I follow thee!" Then they slipped a noose around his neck and pulled it tight. The trap was sprung. It was the first time a prisoner of war had ever been executed...