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...under the Corrupt Practices Act in 1931; 3) after his three-year battle to outlaw the indictment the Supreme Court declared it valid; 4) last week he and his confidential secretary were in a District of Columbia Court fighting against conviction on charges that might send them both to jail for two years and result in a $10,000 fine. Walking with a cane but otherwise apparently untouched by ravages of age or care, the Bishop last week stepped into the District of Columbia Court House. He took an active part in selecting the jury, nodding his approval before each...
...police station at Warsaw was the third that John ("Killer") Dillinger, wanted for five murders and innumerable bank robberies, was supposed to have raided since he broke jail at Crown Point, Ind. March 3. Police in Peru and Auburn said he had stolen guns from them, too. Police in Chicago said they had been fired on by Dillinger at night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger...
...laxity in the Stavisky affair, hauled him into court, sentenced him again on his ancient swindle charge. In 15 years Henri Rochette has lost most of his spirit; he wanted only to be left alone. He lost his appeal last week. The original sentence of two years in jail was upheld...
...accepting a bribe to permit Tokyo Gas Co. to increase its capitalization. Five members of the Japanese Diet, two sheriffs and 16 Tokyo officials had already got mild sentences for that crime, most of them suspended. But the judges clamped on Yukichi a sentence of ten months in jail and a 17,000-yen ($5,000) fine. Big Brother Senjuro could not help feeling that, as the public officer responsible for discipline in the Army, he should accept his responsibility for his brother's sins by resigning. Mildly the old Genro tried to dissuade him, pointed out that Brother...
...mind last week. They had to discover if any other children were criminal morons like George Rogalski. In the classroom George Rogalski had been clever, polite, attentive. His teachers had noticed nothing strange about him except that he sometimes teased smaller children. Last week George Rogalski was in jail, his name was in grisly headlines and Superintendent of Schools William Joseph Bogan, after voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week...