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...back into a solid wall of flames. Two dark figures staggered back, lurched through the door, fell on the road outside, afire from head to foot. Two white guards rolled them into the snow-filled ditch to put them out. Then the drum of gasoline went up. . . . When a prison official arrived on the scene, he wired the State Prison at Kilby to ship 20 coffins to Scottsboro...
...jury got it done fairly quickly. Within eight hours it was back with the regular verdict of guilty but decided that Defendant Patterson be spared the electric chair, to spend the next 75 years in prison. "I'd rather die," scowled Patterson...
...Henry from prison was then reinstated...
...vexatious problem to U. S. Protestant churches and to the U. S. Department of Justice has been prison chaplaincies. Chief reason: the Protestant cloth seems to lose caste when associated with the cell. Last year Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings abandoned a hit-or-miss method by which U. S. penal institutions drew their chaplains from the neighborhood clergy. Into effect last week went a new system evolved with the help of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...
...Nick Appopolis, the fish-cannery owner, assaults her virtue with a matrimonial offer and a neckpiece made of well-bleached cat-fur. When her fisherman leaves her to go on the bum, she steals a roll of bills for him from Nick. Sentenced for this, she gets out of prison through a drainpipe, is reunited with her tuna fisherman, only to give herself up to the law when he promises to quit his cocky ways, work again...