Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There were two hangings at Pentonville Prison last week, but the Pentonville bell did not toll, the chief warden did not hoist a black flag to the prison masthead. Just curt sheriff's and coroner's notes pinned on the prison door told of the death by hanging of Jose Waldberg, 25, and Karl Heinrich Meier, 24. Their only distinction: being the first enemy spies to be executed in Great Britain during...
...happens when Gene goes back to his home town of Torpedo to act as honorary sheriff for a local celebration. The Wildhacks have been running Torpedo from an upstairs gambling room in their saloon, and poor old Pop (George "Gabby" Hayes), the good, grizzled, granddaddy of the town, has all but given up hope for happy days again. When Gene is slapped around by the Wildhacks, Pop has to take him out to Melody Ranch for some western air and exercise before Gene can dish out the necessary retribution...
Possum In Elherton Ga. a hound named Buck incapacitated by a broke leg went hunting with Sheriff John Starke. Pushed in a wheelbarrow, he treed three possiums without once leaving his seat...
...sheriff of Middlesex County yesterday announced that Harvard owned some real estate in Cambridge...
...length, legalistic posters placed in conspicuous places on University property, the sheriff and Aldrich Durant, business manager, stated that the Corporation claimed sole ownership of its property and would resist any claims that the public had obtained an "easement" on the property because of common use of Harvard's paths and driveways...