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Slippery. In Houston, small-boned Frank Mullins told how last June he broke out of his death cell in Edinburgh jail: he dieted, greased himself with nose salve, slithered through a 12-inch hole and an 18-inch drainpipe...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, 39, played chess with a warder till midnight, then went to bed in his Wandsworth cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...
When he was ready, John Amery shook hands with a young woman believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone to the execution chamber, where Hangman Pierrepont was waiting. With a firm step John Amery climbed the gallows...
Mused Hess in his Nürnberg cell: "The decision . . . was without doubt the hardest I ever made. It was rendered easier, however, when I visualized the endless rows of children's coffins in both Germany and England, with mothers in dire distress following behind, and similar rows of mothers killed by bombs, with crying children following. I assume many people will interpret this as misplaced sentimentalism...