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...grand jury last week indicted Walter Liggett, famed muckraker for Plain Talk, Common Sense, et al., now publisher of the Minneapolis MidWest American, on a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl. Muckraker Liggett's Wife Edith promptly countercharged that "Governor Floyd B. Olson's gang" was trying to "disgrace and discredit Walter by making the alleged offense as dirty and infamous as possible. . . . The prosecution of Walter is one of the foulest frame-ups ever engineered. . . . [Walter has] demanded the impeachment of the Governor on ten definite counts...
...enough to attempt suicide by throwing himself out of a window and at 45 is a bedridden pauper at the expense of the tax payer, an incurable brain syphilitic. The second had also frosted toes. He died of his gangrene and associated syphilis and never was near a chain gang. The third had frosted toes and is still running around the world with them...
Shelled out of existence, or "put away on ice" in Federal penitentiaries month after month were such lurid desperadoes as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, the "Terrible Touhy" Gang, "Pretty Boy" Floyd. And on Sept. 26, 1933, Mr. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly produced a word which still rings from the front pages of the U. S. Press. Trapped in the bedroom of his Memphis hideout, the instigator of the Urschel kidnapping held his trembling hands high...
Black little Robert Barnes and big brown Woodrow Wilson Shropshire say they were sent to solitary confinement in a North Carolina chain-gang "dark house" last January because they warmed their feet at a roadside fire after a guard told them not to. The guard's story is that the two Negro convicts-Barnes received stolen goods; Shropshire had driven while drunk-were put in solitary because they refused to work. The Negroes say that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went...
Since North Carolina public opinion is thoroughly aroused against the Negroes' keepers and the whole reeking chain-gang system, consensus was that Robert Barnes's and Woodrow Wilson Shropshire's lost legs would be the price of a new and more merciful penological system in the State...