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Last week, as Assassin Jose de Leon Toral sat in his cell awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on his appeal, his desolate wife and almost-widow gave birth...
...celebration of the birth of its founder. Christmas embraces a variety of activity bounded at last only by the mistletoe of the Druids and the tinkling jewelry of Texas Guinan. Those who bear the costliest gifts and those who humbly pray in the chill obscurity of the cell both sight the same event as test for their expression of honor and devotion...
...with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people she had ruined dubbed her last week with a sort of awe "La Grande Catherine de Finance...
...appeal was heard in a cell to give Assassin Toral every protection from a howling mob outside the jail which wanted to lynch him. At the expiration of the hearing, the three Supreme Court Judges majestically departed giving no indication of whether or not they would permit Toral's case to be retried...
...Murderer Chung Yi-miao was dragged protesting to his cell, meticulous observers noted that the Lord Chief Justice had mistakenly referred to him as "Miao"-apparently supposing that to be his surname. Of course Chinese surnames or "last names" come first, and the Lord Chief Justice should have said, "Chung is guilty," unless His Lordship desired to refer to the prisoner familiarly by his given name, which was Yi-miao, not Miao...