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AMAZING PRISONER: The Case of Robert Stroud

... rather than premeditation. His second killing was the murder of a prison warder. For this he was sentenced to death. After a long and dramatic lour years' legal battle he was reprieved on the threshold of the scaffold by President Wilson, his sentence being ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 901 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE DERWENTWATER STOR: The Tragedy of the Recusants

... impeached. Pleading guilty at his trial, he was attainted, and beheaded on Tower Hill on February 24, 1716, declaring on the scaffold his devotion to the Roman Catholic religion and to King James III. Giving the Earl's story the picturesque title of NORTHERN ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 827 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

Allegory with blunt teeth

... to reinstat the Mosaic Law. She has killed oil of love and must expiate her foil by becoming his wife and being a: angel of comfort to the men an women he sends in the course c business to the scaffold. He ha killed in the name of justice, bu justice is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 October 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 971 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

It's rough on the cobbers

... robs, kills, cuts into convenient pieces and burns in his commodious kitchen stove are the Misses Patricia Roc and Greta Gynt. Dear girls how wrong you were to attempt a come-back in this grisly piece of tripe. Mr. Louis Malle's Lift To The Scaffold has ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1035 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

The saddest Jane

... punctu- ated by lynching mobs and brave last words, handkerchiefs tied across eyes, last Presents made to friends at the scaffold, dripping straw, pieces of cloth dipped in blood as mementoes of an historic occasion. amk-f been a fearful time for the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

Carving a controversy

... The girl is killed as she rushes across a road to escape being raped by a local, womanizing doctor and as the boy carries her body back to lay it between the feet of the statue of God, his despair is complete. He climbs up the scaffolding pre paring to ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1964
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 791 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review