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...head against a table, but a jury swiftly found them guilty of first-degree murder. Still their exhibition was not over. On the way to Sing Sing last week one of them attacked the driver of their car with his unmanacled fist, and at the door of the prison they put on this show. They were locked up in the empty women's wing of the death house so that they could not disturb other men about...
...heard Marshal Petain announce over the radio that his purpose was to end the class struggle. A few parades were staged. In honor of the day-which was also the Marshal's Saint's Day-the Vichy Government freed 700 pacifists, said it would "replace" them in prison with Communists and food speculators...
Werra parachuted into British hands last September when his Messerschmitt was shot down over Croydon Airport. Interned in Hyde Park, the 26-year-old airman was surprised while burrowing his way out, shipped off to a Scottish prison camp. There he promptly escaped again, was picked up after six days when he tried to board a boat for Eire...
Instead the prison train went north from Montreal into the Laurentian Mountains, and Werra, seeing his plans upset, dived out the train window into a snowbank. Speaking French fluently, he had no difficulty hitching lifts with habitants for about 140 miles, through Ottawa to the St. Lawrence. He paddled across to the U.S. at night in a stolen boat, landing near Ogdensburg, N.Y. with his ears badly frozen...
...himself, was captured by the German forces in France's downfall last summer and was placed in a farm house prior to being sent to a prison camp. By cleverly hiding himself when the group marched away, he was able to get free and make his way on foot to Switzerland...