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...hold-up murder of 52-year-old Susan Flora Reich in Manhattan, self-dramatizing Madeline Webb went to prison for life, self-dramatizing Eli Shonbrun, impassive John Cullen went to Sing Sing to await death in the chair...
Pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to deliver U.S. military secrets to Germany & Japan, Anastasi Andrevitch ("V-V") Vonsiatsky (TIME, June 22), founder of the "All-Russian Fascisti in America," was sentenced to prison for five years, fined...
Last week he got bored. Slipping out of prison in what State Prosecutor Luis Angel Rodriguez termed "an inexplicable manner," Fernando tossed off a few tequilas with some friends, then vaulted the garden wall of the widow of the man he had killed and set about earnestly serenading her. He was finally collected, plopped back into jail under an additional charge of trespassing. Senor Rodriguez further announced that, in addition to serenading the woman he had widowed, Fernando Ortiz Rubio had written "improper expressions" on the wall of her house...
...Darkness At Noon (TIME, May 26, 1941) Arthur Koestler made, of a man in a Soviet prison cell, one of the great symbols of humanity in our time. In Dialogue With Death* Koestler himself is that symbol. During the Spanish Civil War Koestler went to Spain as correspondent for the London News Chronicle, was captured by Franco's forces. Later the British Government got him out of Spain. But for 102 days (February to May 1937), in prisons at Malaga and Seville, Koestler learned what it means to be sure from hour to hour (yet never sure enough), that...
When they asked him for his pedigree, the little guy who thought he had plenty of talent, but never got a break, snarled: "My business is a murderer. . . ." Eli and Cullen will die in the chair. His little lady will finish her life in prison...