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...cell corridor of Wandsworth Gaol last week a white jacketed hospital orderly nodded pleasantly to a group of British Justices of the Peace seated uncomfortably on folding chairs. He then unpacked a stethoscope and a bottle of antiseptic from his medical case. Meanwhile, an assistant keeper had attached leather thongs to the three points of a six-foot wooden triangle, set up before an iron pillar...
...cell tier high above them cowered one James Edward Spiers, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for robbing and knocking senseless two London cashiers. In a few minutes, as part of his official sentence he would be taken downstairs, strapped to the wooden triangle. His heart would be tested by the hospital orderly, and in the presence of the assembled J. P.'s he would receive 15 stinging, blood-raising strokes from the inch-thick lash. If as almost invariably happens, he should faint during the flagellation, the orderly was there to stop the beatings, apply restoratives until the prisoner resumed...
...which took place at the Central Square Station, a Harvard sophomore was arrested and taken to the Central Square Headquarters charged with disturbing the peace. At 1.30 o'clock last night, friends of the prisoner were trying to raise bail to keep him from passing the night in a cell...
...Alma Rubens (Humoresque), lately released from the California State Asylum where she had been committed as a narcotic addict (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), made a redebut at a Hollywood night club. Said she: "Toward the end it became terrible. I placed dope on a pedestal. . . . I stayed in a cell with a mad woman for more than two weeks. . . . I'm cured...
Everything depends, of course, upon the point of view. Soon after his crime young Princip, whom the Austrian Imperial Prosecutor grimly called "too young to hang," was locked up under a sentence of "solitary confinement in a darkened cell for life." As was intended, he withered in the damp dark, died of consumption...