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Following that insurrection, Warden Hill announced that Chaplain George Whitmeyer, onetime rector of an Episcopal church in bloody Herrin, Ill., "had fomented discontent, carried messages for convicts and, knowingly or not, had been instrumental in a jail delivery plot." Chaplain Whitmeyer resigned three days after the thwarted escape. Said he: "I resigned because I was the man who disclosed the plans for the attempted prison escape, only to have the guards deliberately trap and shoot these three men after they had been allowed to climb down the outer wall. It was such brutality that aroused the other prisoners...
...jail Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger wept for her two small children. French policemen assured her that they were all right, playing safely on the warm sands of Nice with their nurse. French friends testified that the slain man was "insanely jealous," recalled that he once insured Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger 's dimples for $100,000. Preparations were made to bury him in Philadelphia...
...consul at Nice, Robertson Honey, escorted the Swedish nurse when she brought fresh linen to make up Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger's bed in jail. In Paris the lawyer who handled Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger's last divorce coined an impromptu epitaph: "He always found married life extremely difficult. But he found it impossible to live alone...
...than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city hall steps (immediately after their release from jail) by 14 kidnappers, allegedly Klansmen, to a secluded...
Congress, after three reporters of Hearst's Washington Times had gone to jail for refusing to tell a Grand Jury the names and addresses of speakeasies described in a Times survey. No Federal law materialized...