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...tell to whom he gave $40,000 of his quarter million, and that was why Senator Reed cited him for contempt. The penalty for this offense varies from one month to one year in jail, plus a fine. But Mr. Insull is in no immediate danger of entering a cell. First the Senate must find him guilty of contempt; then he can still carry his case to the Supreme Court...
With the imprisonment of Charles Birger, the two gangs which have for ten months terrorized the district in and around Williamson County, Ill.-"Bloody Williamson," ill-famed for Herrin killings-are leaderless. Birger himself captained one gang; now he plays pinochle with himself in a jail cell at Benton, Ill., while eight armed deputies patrol the corridors. The other faction, led by the three Shelton brothers, also "mourns leaders' absence," for recently, Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton entered Leavenworth Penitentiary, began 25-year sentences for robbing U.S. mails in Collinsville, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1925. Perhaps there...
With Sheltons disposed of, with Birger awaiting trial, optimists hope for peace in "Bloody Williamson." Pessimists, dissenting, point out that Birger gave himself up only to escape being shot down in the streets, that when he first surrendered he was allowed to take into his cell a pistol and a machine gun, that he could raise his $42,500 bond overnight if he were so inclined. Then, too, lieutenants, ambitious, quick-firing, are ready to step into departed chieftain's shoes, ready to prolong the same feuds with the same weapons. Meanwhile Leader Birger, answering no doorbells, dodging...
...rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons had denied him a seat. One of the severest crises in the history of the Mother of Parliaments was summarized in the slogan "Jack and Liberty." In the end, Jack...
...lynchings. In 1926 there were 29 lynchings. This is exclusive of a lynching which took place in Florida on Dec. 27. Some men with acetylene torches bored through the lock of the county jail at Waldo, Fla., found a Negro, George Buddington, 55, in the corner of a cell. A white woman had owed Buddington money for a long time, Recently, intoxicated, he tried to collect it with a pistol in his hand . . . "or something shiny, something that looked just like a pistol," the woman declared when she had him arrested. The masked men took him several miles...