Word: jailers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Home Again. In Amarillo, Texas, onetime Trusty Robert C. Stewart, sent back to Potter County jail from West Virginia, explained why he had failed to come back in August 1949 when a jailer sent him out to get a morning paper: "He didn't tell me what kind of paper...
...Brother." The hero is an anonymous Flemish prisoner, tortured with hopes of liberty by an inquisitor-jailer who gently calls him "My brother" and assures him that Flanders will soon be freed from Spain. After the jailer has departed one evening, the prisoner notices his cell door has been left open. He creeps down an endless corridor; a torturer, carrying the tools of his trade, and two priests pass him without notice. When he finally reaches the open air, his cry of exultation is drowned out by a liturgical chant from chorus and organ. Two arms reach...
...trouble after they decided, one night back in 1880, to lynch a bandit named George Parrott. It was easy enough to get him out of jail. "Big Nose George," intent on escape, had thoughtfully filed off his leg irons and knocked the jailer cold with them, thus had left himself undefended. But he was a hard man to hang...
Siberian Gratitude. Though he never swerved from his duty as their jailer, Lieut. Kudriavtsev felt increasing pity for his emaciated prisoners-Sherrez, the selfless composer who believed "that God comes to me out of the darkness in waves of music"; Kuzma, the priest who feigned madness to help the other prisoners; Korn-felder, the doctor who took care of the sick as if he were still visiting patients in a provincial town. These prisoners were good people, talented people, and in a moment of anguish Kudriavtsev silently asked: "My God, why do I have to lead these damned souls...