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...Charles heard the verdict with composure. Father John bowed his head, shed tears. Not since Representative John Wesley Langley of Kentucky was sent to jail in 1926 for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law had a Congressman been convicted of a felony...
...Moscow and in Rome last week a Russian and an Italian thanked their stars that they work for William Randolph Hearst. The Red Dictatorship and the Black had each clapped into jail a native Hearstman: in Russia, faithful Translator and Legman Zachary Levovich Mikhailov; in Rome, longtime Bureau Chief Guglielmo Emanuel. The Russian was convicted of espionage, sentenced to be shot. The Italian was kept incommunicado in a cell for 52 days while his journalist friends thought he, too, had been jugged...
...last trial of a peer by the House of Lords was 34 years ago, when Lord Russell was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to three months in jail, the usual sentence for a bigamist in England being two years. After serving ten days, Lord Russell was pardoned by King Edward...
Delmont ("Bouboule" to the French Press because of his resemblance to a fat comic strip character popular throughout France). Besson was dragged to headquarters to start serving the ten-month jail sentence that seemed about to end forever his political career...
...Besson's troubles with the police started in 1932, when a lawyer brought suit for an unpaid bill of $200. Losing his case, Deputy Besson defiantly refused to pay, was sentenced to three months in jail. The job was to catch him. France allows her citizens a total of 31 days in jail before they can be disbarred from public office. At various times, M. Besson had served nearly three weeks behind bars for passing bad checks and attacking uniformed flunkies. Another ten days would ruin his political career...