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...affidavit repudiating his claim, that Senator Watson was a Klansman was prepared and, when Rogers refused to sign it, his name was clumsily forged to it. For this forgery one man has already been sent to prison. Plaintiff Rogers now seeks settlement from the rest who, he believes, tried to discredit...
...Sinclair, No. 10,520 in the Washington, D. C., jail, heard some bad news last week. Already incarcerated for contempt of the Senate, he heard that the U. S. Supreme Court had sustained his six-month sentence for contempt of court. He carried on with his duties in the prison pharmacy, certain in the knowledge that he would spend Christmas and New Year's behind bars...
...13th Century, the Petit Châtelet stood on the left bank of the Seine. Its grey twin towers made at once a gate to the city, a fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars...
...high arsenic content of the soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright against the dungeon wall. Some lay with heavy wooden collars about their necks, some were chained to blocks of stone...
Ordinary murder brings life imprisonment at the new farm prison on the Isle of Pines. Sometimes long-term prisoners there are prompted to escape. Then they are shot quickly and carefully in the back...