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John Hamilton, 35, bandit, whom Dillinger helped to escape from the Indiana State Prison last September. Month later Hamilton returned the favor by delivering Dillinger from the jail in Lima, Ohio, killing a sheriff. The pair robbed banks, shot policemen with precise criminal skill...
...room on the top floor of Sing Sing's new prison hospital last week Warden Lewis E. Lawes stripped, put on a short white nightgown. In another room on the same floor Sing Sing's Chief Physician Charles Clark Sweet also stripped, put on a clean white short-sleeved shirt, pants and sneakers. While Dr. Sweet scrubbed up, Warden Lawes was wheeled into the operating room, laid out on the operating table by prisoner-nurses who are paid 5? a day. Sheets were spread over him so as to cover the scar of his old rupture operation, expose...
...worshipper should know, was a smuggler of men. She was shot for heroically smuggling Allied soldiers out of territory occupied by the Imperial German Armies. Exactly similar was the work of two French heroines, Louise de Bettignies and Marie Léonie van Houtte. Louise died in a German prison. Last week with all possible Paris pomp Marie was married...
...great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet, and won a slight raise in pay and a permanently maimed left hand. On his way back to Spain his ship was captured by Algerian corsairs. In Algiers, Cervantes spent five years in prison, made four unsuccessful attempts to escape, was finally ransomed...
...jail again. Three months later his innocence was established and he was released. Six years later he was jailed once more for the same reason. This time he turned his enforced leisure to good account, wrote two stories. Fourth and last time Cervantes saw the inside of a prison was for suspected complicity in a murder; again he was acquitted. Though this uncertain freedom gave Cervantes a liberal education in human nature it did not encourage him in regular habits. "All his work was in disorder, just like his life. He wrote his pages in fits and starts, and then...