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Last January into San Francisco Municipal Court went a white girl with the charge that a Filipino boy had held her while a rival white girl battered her nose, blacked both her eyes. Said Judge Sylvain Lazarus from the bench: "This is a deplorable situation. ... It is a dreadful thing...
Venezuela's counterpart of the French Bastille is Caracas' vast, dreadful Rotunda Prison, into one of whose small cells there were sometimes crammed as many as 34 shackled prisoners. Last week the Government which succeeded the long reign of implacable Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez removed the last political...
After they had brought in a verdict of guilty in Manchester Assizes last week, a horror-struck jury of townsfolk and farmers were rewarded in a manner almost unprecedented in the annals of British justice. Cried Presiding Justice Singleton: "I excuse you all from jury service for the rest of...
Stage history can be very fascinating if it be pursued in the right spirit. Dr. Noyes has tried to communicate this fascination to the reader, but the detail is necessarily so abundant, the subject is inevitably so remote, that the common reader, at any rate, will find the book bewildering...
Colleagues of the San Francisco doctor, out of consideration for him and his wife, kept their identities secret. In consequence of that secrecy, dreadful rumor swiftly spread across the country that trichinosis was rife throughout California. In actual fact, however, the doctor and his wife were last week the only...