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...jail, fire chiefs and prosecutors made Driscoll print his name, dictated sentences, compared the printing to the threat notes of 1931-32. Driscoll twitched, squirmed, finally burst into a babble of confession. For four days he gushed about his crimes, drove with fire officials the city's length & breadth, pointing out plants he had fired. When he was talked out, flabbergasted officials tallied up 125 fires, $1,000,000 losses...
...majesté for the Italian consul, Amadeo Barletta, to break the tobacco monopoly of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. It was lèse majesté against Benito Mussolini, a greater dictator than Trujillo, when Trujillo clapped Barletta into jail and confiscated his tobacco company on dubious charges of an assassination plot (TIME, May 13). Last week a third and greater act of lèse majesté was in the making, as Mussolini moved to get his consul out of jail...
This week tall, swart Bill Powell, charged with shipping 26 duck to Philadelphia, went on trial in the same court. Verdict: six months in jail, $500 fine...
...Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing a rash and silly accusation against a man who promptly proves his innocence. Forced to confess his own guilt, Gypo is sentenced to be shot. He escapes from his improvised jail but it does him no good. The Sinn Feiners track him to Katie's shabby lodging where he has crawled off to hide. This time, the bullets reach him as he tries to run away...
...Foreign Legion, only to be ousted promptly as physically unfit. Last week in London's Old Bailey his profligate father William Angus Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail for pawning jewels which did not belong to him. His Grace repeated his most famed phrase: "The trouble is I have been a mug." Also proved a noble "mug" was the fourth Lord Revelstoke, handsome young scion of the House of Baring, whose father was a famed British financier and whose...