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...than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years in an English jail for shooting a peeler...
...again, Leo found himself nearly destitute, but Fenianism had given him an aim in life. He married one of his old wenches, lived in poverty but went on plotting his revenge against the police. Twice more he went to jail, but he lived to be an old man who liked to think himself a desperate character. At the end the furnace of the Dublin Easter rebellion swallowed...
...proportions that gendarmes arrive and escort Jones to prison. There it is assumed that he is a spy. Soon the affaire Jones becomes the question of the day. Governments rise and fall on the issue. It looks bad for Jones. In melodramatic fashion he is spirited away from the jail, held incommunicado in a mysterious chateau. He escapes, makes his way back to Paris where he gets involved in a U. S. fraternal order's parade, is discovered and arrested again. By the time his case has been finally ironed out, he is almost proud of the disturbance...
John and Mary were married in Toledo in 1930 and went to Ontario to live with Mary's parents. John lost his job and was refused relief because he was a U. S. citizen. In desperation he stole some gasoline, was sentenced to jail and deported. Mary could not go with him because she had once been in a reformatory, was an undesirable alien. Last November John tried in vain to persuade the Labor Department to let Mary cross the border for Thanksgiving. Said he last week: "I guess there is nothing more...
...lost him to a crowd finally nabbed him but not before he had shouted martyr-wise to his followers: "I am still wearing a blue shirt and our cause will go on. Be calm, and we shall win although I am in prison." Then he was hustled off to jail, on a charge of wearing a blue shirt...