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...famed as the seat of the du Pont plants and patriarchy. New Castle, six miles south, an ancient and lovely architectural museum whose inhabitants still benefit from the 1,068 acres William Penn deeded them in 1701, occasionally makes a little news paragraph when the warden of the county jail legally uses his cat-o'-nine-tails on a darky chicken thief. Thirty-eight miles still farther south in Delaware is an important little town almost never heard of: Dover, founded in 1717 by William Penn on the St. Jones River...
...Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Clyde Deer, 230-lb. guard, was sipping his breakfast coffee near the cell block of desperate prisoners when he suddenly was set upon with clubs by seven convicts headed by Life Termers Jim Clark and Bob Brady. Participants in the Memorial Day jail break, they seized Guard Deer's keys, locked him and several trusties in a cell, spent 20 minutes building a ladder, rushed it across the baseball diamond and climbed over the prison wall under cover of a fog and under fire of guards...
Unmoved, the judge sentenced Medievalist Henri to three months in jail, fined him 500 francs for cruelty...
...found by Secret Service agents weltering in his blood at the Alpine resort of Chamonix, apparently a suicide. But Accuser Henriot went further. "When the unmarried girl who is now Stavisky's widow was arrested in connection with a burglary," he shouted, "she did not go to jail! They said she was with child and they put her in a hospital under guard. Messieurs, only two visitors were allowed access to the bedside of that young girl. Both of them are now Ministers of France...
...What scandal forced a French Mayor to shiver in a jail in which he had refused to install central heating...