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...dawn on Sunday the prison siren hooted across the moor. Convicts had broken into the warden's office and attempted to steal the keys. Every man in Princetown, the little village under the prison walls, was given a rifle and posted near the jail. The central cell block roared up in flames, the clock tower fell. Guards with riot guns stood on ladders and popped at every cropped head that showed above the parapet...
...inject liver extracts directly into the blood stream. The extracts behaved like protein poisons. By fiddling with the liver juices after a method which has been patented, Professors Sturgis & Isaacs developed an innocuous fluid. Once introduced into a vein it whips the blood into a fury of red cell reproduction. The fury lasts for four to six weeks, when another intravenous injection becomes necessary. That is more pleasant, anemics find, than swallowing hog stomachs once a day or eating beef liver at every meal...
...conspirators mentioned the name of General Franz Schill. The Court was aghast. Respected General Schill but recently retired from the gendarmerie after 35 years of faithful service. His son is a lieutenant in the army. Nevertheless the Court ordered him arrested, held. Last week he sat in a cell, his head bowed in shame. The door rattled open; two of his former officers entered, stood stiffly. General Schill rose to greet them. One of them laid something on the table. Then stiffly they filed out, leaving the door open. The general looked at the open door, then at the thing...
...print in their columns wild and derogatory letters signed by fictitious names without first ascertaining the identity of the writers. Because in at least one such case he was not shrewd, Editor John Wesley Mapoles of the Hopewell (Va.) News last week found himself sharing a jail cell with a prominent Hopewell bootlegger...
Traveler In Richmond, Va., one Henry Perkins, jobless hitchhiker, begged a night's lodging at a police station. Given a cell, he spread newspapers on the floor, opened an expensive suitcase, dressed himself in silk pajamas. Then he took from his suitcase a small spray gun, sprayed the cot thoroughly, went...