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...first to be called to attend Stavisky. I protest that I was not also called to testify at the inquest which pronounced him a suicide." In Bayonne the local Mayor, M. Joseph Garat, a Deputy of France arrested as an accomplice of Swindler Stavisky, sat in his cell shivering and disconsolate. One of his last acts as Mayor was to refuse the piteous pleas of shivering prisoners that he install central heating in the jail...
...international revolutionaries of the Communist persuasion." Since no correspondent witnessed the execution. Dr. Goebbels could and did put out an exclusive Government story of what occurred: At 5 p. m. Public Prosecutor Werner, whose speeches during the Reichstag Trial fill several volumes, entered van der Lubbe's isolated cell, reread the death sentence of the Supreme Court (TIME, Jan. 1), stated that President von Hindenburg had refused to commute it and told van der Lubbe to make ready for death at dawn. During the night a guillotine was hastily knocked together in the prison courtyard. Meanwhile van der Lubbe...
...Eastview, N. Y. Keeper Arthur W. Trevitt of the Westchester County penitentiary traced the smell of liquor to the main cell block, found five gallons of homemade liquor fermenting in a fire extinguisher...
...participation has not been 'shown in the proceedings before this court." On this basis Prosecutor Werner asked the Court to sentence Comrade Torgler to death. He also asked death for the fifth and last prisoner, famed Dutch Brickmason Marinus Van der Lubbe who was brought up from his cell in a stupor at every session of his trial but one. On that one day Van der Lubbe had shouted: "I have been questioned for over eight months! . . . Nothing ever happens. I don't agree to that! ... I set the fire. None of the other defendants had anything...
...uncanny dexterity at picking his way out of gaol not only cheated the gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...