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Crowds hissed her as she was driven to her trial in the prison van. Her dressy friends flocked to see the trial, carrying opera glasses and basket lunches. Florrie's counsel was Sir Charles Russell, later Lord Chief Justice. Her defense: that May-brick had long been addicted to drugs of all sorts, including arsenic; that it was at his own insistence that Florrie had put some "white powder" into his meat juice; that the cause of death had not been fixed with any certainty (which was true); that she had soaked the flypapers for arsenic...
...years she suffered the indignities and ordeals of English prison life, while her mother, the Baroness, spent a fortune trying to win her release. Cardinal Gibbons, U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine and Ambassador Robert Lincoln added their appeals. At last, in 1904, Florrie was freed...
Forty-eight hours later 50 French prison ers stumbled out of their cells and were riddled by firing squads. They were trade-union leaders, "Communists," men suspected of helping the British or Free French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...
...antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time at all (for their speed is that of light], they reach a point in the darkness 3,000 miles away. A man there has a receiving set in his cellar tuned to the right wave length. He is risking prison or maybe death to hear the voice of the distant man at the microphone. To him it means Liberty and Truth...
...heard the secret police demand the papers of a man who had called the army "a walking prison." "I have no papers," said the man, "I am the son of the Unknown Soldier...