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Negro Armwood was bleeding from head and chest when he was dragged out of the jail. He was stunned from the fight he had put up in his cell. He made no outcry, even when a young boy leaped on his back and cut off one of his ears. He fell often under foot as the mob dragged him along. He was dead before they strung him up to an oak tree in sight of Judge Duer's house. Some mobsters tried to set fire to what few rags remained on the corpse. There was not enough to burn...
...used by the Spaniards as a harbor fortification. In its sandstone bowels are deep dungeons and underground passages. For years the War Department has used it as a military prison. Last week the island was transferred to the Department of Justice. Attorney General Cummings announced that its 600-cell jail would become the home of the nation's worst criminals. The plan is to move the more intractable kidnappers, murderers, thieves and racketeers out of Federal penitentiaries and isolate them on Alcatraz "so that their evil influences may not be extended to other prisoners." They will not be subjected...
...Eccolo, e matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything...
...Paul, was indicted for income tax evasion. He pleaded guilty, was fined $10,000, given two years in Leavenworth. There he was assigned to work under a friendly Texan named Charles Ward, once a mechanical engineer, who had also been sentenced for revenue law violations. Sharing the same cell, Bigelow and Ward soon became fast friends. They talked over the details of Bigelow's business, discussed ways & means of running it in the future. Said Bigelow to his friend: "I'm going to remold you. You're made of good clay." After eight months, Bigelow was released...
...Milledgeville, Ga., Roy McCullough was sent to prison for a misdemeanor, found his father Alvin, whom he had not seen for 21 years, in the death cell awaiting execution for murder...