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...Three of Dillingers confederates . . . waiting in jail at Lima, Ohio, heard of his escape, speedily dressed in their best clothes so as to be ready when he came to deliver them." (TIME, March...
...Toronto last week the Appeal Court of Ontario held Brother Martin Insull extraditable on two of the three charges of theft for which the U. S. is asking his return, locked him in the city jail to await the arrival of Chicago detectives...
After throwing the Courier-Journal's close-mouthed Acting Editor Vance Armentrout into jail for an hour, a special House Committee tried him last week for contempt, fined him $25 and costs. Said Editor Armentrout: "I am not guilty of contempt and I expect to find my vindication in the courts. . . . The Attorney General will have to sue me which will give me an opportunity for justice. This action was a 'face'-saving maneuver for the first committee which threw me in jail without a trial . . . and utterly without authority...
...ahead without truckling to Tammany. Metropolitan coincidence brought them tragically together. Young Castie Petrella, one of Carolyn's more difficult pupils, a sullen boy who pined for a big, bad reputation, tried to impress his gang by stealing a car. He was caught almost immediately, sent to jail. Carolyn was the only person who understood why he had done it, but her vague inquiries were powerless to help him, until she discovered amiable Amy Turk, wife of the man who owned the car. Together they went to Oliver...
...parole and Amy's husband the horns he had long deserved. Oliver, torn between his ambition and Carolyn's faith in him, nearly went mad, thought of killing her. Instead, he sank his scruples and blackmailed his way into the Tammany trough, Castie, out of jail but still an unconsidered gangsterling, made another attempt to show the world by holding up his benefac tress, Amy, shot her by mistake. Oliver, his eye on forensic laurels, foolishly took the job of defending him. Oliver's smoothly resentful colleagues tricked him into a felony, wrecked his career, drove...