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...parting gesture from the republic of Turkey, Mr. Insull had an abscess on his thumb lanced by a jail doctor, was given a health examination and pronounced able to travel. The last appeal of his attorneys was turned down. At 6 one evening six Turkish guards took him from the House of Detention and drove him down to the waterfront in a taxi. Resigned, he went aboard the small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed...
...marriage took place in the barred cubicle of Warden Merritt's office at the Yonkers jail. Justice of the Peace Albert Fiorillo officiated. Miss Spero was tastefully dressed in a black tailored ensemble and wore a corsage of gardenias. Mr. Slavickas wore the customary striped trousers, the stripes running horizontally instead of vertically...
...wedding was small and restricted to intimate friends. The families of the bride and bridegroom did not attend. The witnesses were Messrs. Merritt and Phelan. After the ceremony the happy couple separated, the bridegroom returning to his bachelor cell block in the jail, the bride to the home of her parents...
...Slavickas was escorted to the Yonkers City Jail, where a charge of violation of the Sullivan law was placed against him. His fiancee, Miss Spero . . . felt that while there was life there was hope, and the following morning arrived at the jail with the marriage license in her purse...
...special assistant in the U. S. Attorney General's office, charged in a debate with Samuel Ferguson, chairman of Connecticut Power and President of Hartford Electric Light, that the two companies had earned $8,000,000 excess profits in the last five years, offered to go to jail for five years if he could not prove it in the Supreme Court...