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...From his cell, he tried to patent a method of catching fish by sucking them through seawater pumps directly into a ship, where they would be refrigerated by liquid air. His lawyer often found him standing before a window, holding up to the sun light a bowl of water containing a number of complicated thermometers. He would not say what these experiments were...
Maroni: "You were arrested by Koch, held in a cell and finally released...
...Count: "Correct, except for the ending. Koch never released me. He held me without food or drink for five days in a cell where two other inmates were tied by the wrists to the ceiling...
...little cynically - the world certainly would unite against her in disbelief if she reported the death. She spent four days on the stand. In the county jail, her fellow-prisoners rallied to her support: throughout the six-week trial they kept her hair dyed and waved, tidied her cell, washed her nylons. Halfway through her ordeal they bought her a new spring hat to wear to court. While the jury deliberated, she read Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living...
...cell was ready & waiting in London's Old Bailey. In the old days, a man convicted of treason would have been dragged behind a horse to the scaffold, hanged, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. Now, after due trial, he would simply be taken to the Tower and hanged...