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...first thing the McGuffey deputies did after the Mayor's house was blasted was to arrest Okey O'Dell. The first thing the aroused citizenry did when it got up that morning was to form a motorcade, storm the jail, seize Mr. O'Dell, transport him none too gently to the county line. "It's about time," remarked Mayor Ott's indignant wife, "something was done...
Last week the Government relented. That Arlette Stavisky might see her children she was taken from jail in a prison van to a private hospital. There her foot was elaborately bandaged. In a private room she played happily with her little son and daughter". Yes, she said, maman looked thin because she was tired. Papa was still...
...Also in jail since March was M. Guiboud-Ribaud. onetime lawyer of Alexandre Stavisky. Losing patience he went on a hunger strike, sat in his cell last week screaming "Liberty or Death...
...Abolish the procedure which sent Adolf Hitler not to jail but to "detention in a fortress" after the failure of his seditious beer hall Putsch in 1923. According to the Ministry of Justice "Detention in a fortress can scarcely be continued, since in the totalitarian State neither the seditionist nor the traitor can very well receive honorable detention...
...fuel supply, he headed east into the fog over Prince William Sound. His friends, recalling the airplane suicide last year of a Jacksonville, Fla. widow (TIME, Dec. 4), gave him up for dead. Two days later Flyer Dorbandt suddenly returned to Anchorage, was promptly clapped into jail, was released next day under bond...