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Meanwhile in the little town of Wels the farmer boy stood on the gallows looking away from the hangman. The wardens eyed the minute hands of their watches. There was only one minute to go when an official pushed through the crowd waving a telegram from President Miklas forbidding the...
Two of the best deal with the War and its aftermath. In one is to be seen a very dowdy Woodrow Wilson broadcasting while a little dove exhibits the message "He kept us out of War''; Eugene Debs in jail; the faces of the Rockefellers, J. P. Morgan...
Nevertheless, though no one can predict what peculiar decisions will next emanate from Hitler's warped mentality, I should say that Torgler's chances of acquittal were strong. It is true that this might bring further attention to bear on the question of the real firebugs, but that embarrassment is...
Theirs was far from the last execution. In Breslau another top-hatted headsman swung his sword on another Communist neck. Ten more Reds were sentenced to death in Dessau while 19 others were waiting in German jails for headsmen to get their second wind.
Mr. Fairbairn is famous for numerous other reasons besides his ceremonial duties at the Harvard commencement. Some of the most famous of New England's outlaws and murderers have been placed in his care, and he has been present at every execution except one since he became sheriff. In his...