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...Where the missing $414,129 was coming from, still no one could say. But next day the State's prosecutors promised criminal action against ousted Treasurer Sweitzer on the theory that, while you cannot get blood out of a turnip, you can put the turnip in jail...
...this one, Scenarist Wells Root did about all he could by making the heroine (Jean Arthur) the sister of a crook rather than of a Federal detective, and by letting the audience mistake the G-Man hero for a criminal until his visit to his superior reveals that the jail break he engineered was really a trick to gain the confidence of the leader (Joseph Calleia) of the Purple Gang, who escaped at the same time. From that point on, the story follows the accepted G-Man course: a hunt, punctuated by machine-gun fire and climaxed by the villain...
...winter of 1930, Manhattan police arrested four young men for stealing $59 from an Amsterdam Avenue grocery store. Three of them received short jail terms The fourth, one Edwin Collins Pitts of Opelika, Ala., had carried a gun. For his first robbery he was sentenced to from eight to 16 years in Sing Sing. Convict Pitts, as "Alabama" Pitts, became a star player on the prison's baseball and football teams. News stories about Sing Sing's games against local teams of semi" professionals, firemen and police made him a U. S. sports celebrity. Last week his term...
Honest Duchess. The Lords of Appeal, topped by puffy Lord Chief Justice of England Baron Hewart, last week saved from languishing in jail 3% of Britain's dukes-i. e. one,. His Grace the Duke of Manchester, spendthrift extraordinary and bankrupt plenipotentiary...
Strong as an ox in a fight (he weighs over 200 lb.). Acosta got into many a drunken brawl. When he was fined $10 for public intoxication in 1933, his estranged wife paid that sum to save him from jail. In 1934 he was arrested again, given three months. For all his difficulties with the law, oldtime pilots still rated him top, considered him ''just a big, easygoing fellow with a genius for flying which cannot be used in these regulated days...