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Once, while being held in a jail, he tried to poison himself. The second night he was placed in the sweatbox followed his fourth break for freedom. He was not wearing the barrel, but his neck was chained to the roof. His feet were nailed down in heavy stocks. When he was found dead a justice of the peace directed that there be no inquest. The Press stirred up a fury of public indignation over the affair. County Detective Gasque investigated. Murder indictments were returned against Acting Guard Captain George W. Courson, a 285-lb. hulker, and Solomon Higginbotham...
...stay in jail tonight, your worship," he pleaded. "I can't stay in jail. Think of my public! I have to fight Jack Flynn for the Irish lightweight championship tonight...
...Viceroy of India (1921-26) he steered a course midway between the stiffness of Lord Chelmsford and the conciliatory attitude of Lord Irwin. He was the first Viceroy to put Gandhi in jail, first to impose the despised salt tax, first to enforce the Indian Constitution...
...Hold em Jail," the companion picture, is another of Wheeler and Woolsey's uproarious, inane vehicles, in which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...
...lover is in Jefferson all right, but under a different name and in jail. Miss Burden, an eccentric spinster who has lived for years under the shadow of the town's disapproval, has been murdered...