Horton the Editor Turner at Jefferson Penitentiary
Deputy warden recalls Horton, editor and prisoner at large for life, who ran a secret tunnel from the prison library to escape. Horton, once librarian and famed for writing from confinement, plotted with rare nerve, drilling beneath walls while guards daily shuffled through the wing. His dramatic attempt ends with a vanished culprit and a chilling tale of danger and betrayal.
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Charles B. Lewis
J- Penitentiary
Horton
Quence
Calhoun
Horton’s Tunnel
The Horton Escape and the Tunnel Mystery
A man recalled Horton fleeing after a murder and the tunnel years later. After a Montana pursuit, Horton was found injured on a cliff and died within hours. He confessed nothing, speaking of the tunnel with calm pride as life ended.
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Horton
Montana
Gallatin
Miss Galhoun
Shakespearean Wildlife Metaphor Across British Quadrupeds
The Quarterly Review surveys Shakespeare’s use of over twenty British wild animals. It notes the badger otter and water rat appear only as insult terms, while the polecat hedgehog and others gain varied, often descriptive or metaphorical mentions.
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Titania
Duncan
Shakespeare
Quarterly Review
Indian Fans Through History and Art
The punkah, a large stationary fan, was introduced in India under Lord Cornwallis in 1791 and used by both natives and English residents. A fly fan once owned by the Maharajah of Jung wowed at the 1851 London Exhibition. Excavations at Nineveh and Persepolis reveal ancient fan depictions, with long green fans for Dora and small square fans for cooling jars.
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Lord Cornwallis
Maharajah of
Jung
Nineveh
Persepolis
Persepolis, and Eleswhere
Sennacherib
Assyria
Kouyunjik
New York Post
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