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...venal a heart those medals covered Londoners first discovered last November, at the end of a scandalous trial of a huge arson ring. Before he was sentenced to 14 years in jail, the ringleader, one Leopold Harris, testified that he had had nearly every Salvage Corps officer in his pocket. Of the ring's ?500,000 annual takings in insurance, Captain Miles had received a paltry ?25 a month for overlooking cases of suspected arson...
Last week a jury in Old Bailey Court found brave Captain Miles guilty of "corruption and conspiring to pervert the administration of justice." Grimly the judge sentenced him to four years in jail...
...companies. Swindler Sacazan founded two banks and a bucket shop in Paris, all of which collapsed for a loss of approximately $22,500,000 to French investors. Twenty-three indictments have been brought against him in the past six years. He was sentenced to two years in jail in Algiers, not a day of which has he served. The fact that Premier Chautemps' Minister of Justice, Eugene Raynaldy, was accused of accepting a gift of 250 shares of Sacazan stock was the straw that broke the Chautemps Cabinet late last month. Sacazan was in custody last week...
Reprieves. Other stories were not so pleasant. Eager to make the most of their victory, Heimwehr chieftains clapped hundreds of Socialist officials in jail, where they already had Vienna's famed Burgomaster Karl Seitz and the Austrian Republic's first Chancellor, Dr. Karl Renner. Drumhead courts-martial were set up to try rioters, and kept the newly appointed state executioner, Herr Lang, busy hanging the victims. The first day's catch reached him the third day of the fighting. A young married man, one Karl Munischreiter, had been caught with a rifle a few hours after...
...hardly get along without him. He is a district man for City News Association, which, covers Manhattan and The Bronx (pop.: 3,170,000) exactly as the Associated Press covers the world. He and 60 others like him keep 24-hour watch over every police station, every court, every jail, every hospital, every morgue and every administrative office in the two boroughs. Whenever and wherever news breaks City Newsmen are usually the first to spot it. They tell their office and their office tells the newspapers in some 75,000 words a day. Thus, when the Times reports that...