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...confessed to raping a young white woman in an alley after binding her with her stockings. The judge who heard his prompt confession observed that there was no necessity to "hurry things." But in a distinctly hurrying mood was the crowd which began gathering outside St. Joseph's jail and court house that evening. When some rivermen appeared to take command of the mob, it surged into the court house, through the sheriff's living quarters, destroying everything before it. Governor Park ordered out the local militia tank company. Tankmen were lifted bodily out of their iron nests...
...testimony months before, claiming the rape story was a frame-up. But Orville Gilley, hobo "poet" who had been in the gondola, did corroborate it. Defendant Patterson, nervous and blinking, took the stand to swear that he had never seen any girls on the train. "They told us in jail if we didn't say we done it, they'd kill us,'' he blurted. "They told us they'd give us to the mob outside...
...into Teapot Dome, into Elk Hills, into the Ohio gang's speculations through the brokerage office of Mr. Ungerleider, into its peculations from the Veterans' Bureau, the Interior Department, the Alien Property Custodian's office. The gang went its way, back to Ohio or to jail. George Christian, by now a deserving Republican, was left in Washington by the receding wave of history...
...Chinese Governor, accused by Mr. Lo of having "unwarrantably oppressed" the Moslems of Sinkiang and of flirting politically with Moscow, sat in a Nanking jail last week. He had been seized by soldiers whom Generalissimo Chiang sent along with Mr. Lo. In view of the extreme remoteness of the province, Chiang's Council of Generals felt justified in ignoring last week's fresh rumors of massacre and insurrection in Sinkiang...
When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up one of the seven telephones on his desk and listened to Mr. Porter's suggestion that National Distillers, aside from the dynamite of Repeal, was a pretty good thing at around $16 per share. Mr. Day cocked an eye at the ebony elephant on his desk. Mr. Porter needed...