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...three children had left home after a mail-order courtship, reappeared to claim her house. Letters from Powers postmarked Clarksburg, W. Va., were found in the house. Clarksburg police went to Powers' home (not far from where famed Lawyer John William Davis once lived) and beside a windowless, cell-like garage dug up the bodies of Mrs. Eicher and her children. The two girls, 9 and 14, had been strangled; the head of the boy, 12, was beaten in with a hammer. The police arrested Powers, pounded a confession out of him. Convicts still digging in the foul trench...
...jail at Blackpool, England, Frank Sheridan ate his breakfast, then ate his spoon. Still hungry, he tore the chain and staple from his cell door and ate them too. Satisfied, Prisoner Sheridan lay down, went to sleep...
Police and guards immediately began a search for more weapons in the prison and for an armored car reported seen outside. As the hunt began, two shots rang out in a cell block. The searchers found a guard unhurt and Convict Frank Hohfer, a confederate of the other three, in his cell dead by his own hand...
What did Jean Tourenq know? Dozens of French politicians worried about the little tax collector last week. Had he really uncovered a new scandal, or was this a clever scheme to bluff the Government out of $200,000? Important men visited him in his cell last week, pleaded with him to give up the money or tell what he knew. Jean Tourenq hugged his knees and repeated his demand for a public trial...
...last week David O'Shea sat in his cell without speaking, without moving. He never confessed. On the scaffold the trap was sprung by an executioner from England, a Mr. Pierpont...