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Upstairs reporters found Lockhart cringing in his cell. He had two more confessions to make. One was that he had escaped from a Georgia chain gang in 1931 after assaulting another girl. The other was that his real name was B. B. ("Bunce'') Napier. On his trembling lap lay a Bible opened to Matthew 7: 1-2: Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Napier said he guessed he knew how Leo Frank felt that...
...bolted together, and set to running with its familiar squeaks and rattles. The man from Mars reading our papers will judge, rightly, that the most popularly important aspect of an affair of wholesale murder and robbery is the fact that pretty Norma bumped her knee on a cell door...
...Samuel Insull staged his last fight against deportation. He employed an English barrister, Alexander Mango, to appeal his case to the Court of Cassation (Turkish Supreme Court). When the Turkish attorney general visited him he got more comforts: an armchair, a stove instead of a brazier to warm his cell. Often he was depressed but seldom wept...
...wedding was small and restricted to intimate friends. The families of the bride and bridegroom did not attend. The witnesses were Messrs. Merritt and Phelan. After the ceremony the happy couple separated, the bridegroom returning to his bachelor cell block in the jail, the bride to the home of her parents...
...escape-proof jail, also made a promise: "I know he's a bad baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him." The sheriff meant to keep her promise, but Dillinger's promise was a shrewd piece of bluff. For weeks he sat in his cell doing nothing but whittle a small piece of wood with a razor blade...