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Confusion was complete as to exactly what next occurred. Some said there was a rattle of machine guns as Wrinkle-Face bolted, then sprawled dead. Other "eye witnesses" told of a bland and bold acquiescence in the "execution" by Wrinkle-Face, who quietly walked out into the garden and stood...
Significantly the need for a "next Premier," which arose when Premier Okada was believed to be dead, survived his reappearance from among the scullery maids. The great Army, Navy and Air Force leaders, who frankly despise Japanese politicians and businessmen, assumed that a new Cabinet is indicated-with themselves more...
In Canon City, Colo.'s prison, Warden Roy Best invited 100 convicts to watch the gas chamber execution of a pig in rehearsal of the execution of Murderer Otis McDaniels the following night. Said the Warden: "It gave them a mental picture for reference purposes of death in the...
He could not have repudiated more strikingly the explanation which he gave for postponing the execution last month. Then in justifying his action he said, "I . . . share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed (Hauptmann) in the Lindbergh nursery...
So far Hoffman has not missed an opportunity to discredit himself with the world at large. When he granted Hauptmann a reprieve barely a day before the appointed time of execution, and then failed to bring forward any new evidence, many people voiced the suspicion that he was making a...