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...Postmaster General James Aloysius, whose brother Thomas L. is Sheriff of Rockland County, N. Y. Last week Rockland County's Sheriff Farley went down to the basement of his jail, turned off the heat in the adjacent County Building because the County Board had fired seven of his jail janitors...
...front of Kansas City's Union Station last June. It was Harvey J. Bailey who was captured in his sleep, pistols and machine guns by his side, at the Shannon farm shortly after Urschel's release. It was Harvey J. Bailey who escaped from the Dallas jail last Labor Day after forcing his way out with a mysteriously acquired pistol and kidnapping one of his guards. Only by the sheerest luck had the police been able to recapture him the same day at Ardmore, Okla. And it was Bailey's fugitive partner, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly...
...Jail is the penalty for shouting "Heil Hitler!" ("Hail Hitler!") or any other Nazi slogan in Czechoslovakia. Last week Prague chuckled at the zeal of a town judge in Jagerndorf. Before the judge was brought a prosperous Silesian businessman arrested in peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...
...permission to submit testimony later and provide sworn statements from witnesses afraid to appear. From every point of view it was unfortunate that the defendants at the trial were not more articulate. Only one, Ernst Torgler, was German. He cried: "I am fully innocent. ... I have been in jail for seven months, five of which I was chained day and night and compelled to live in en forced silence." Dim-witted Defendant van der Lubbe could scarcely speak German. Two of the Bulgarian defend ants could speak none at all. But fiery George Dimitroff, for 23 years leader...
...Maura, Walter Ordorsky, Paul Popson, Mason Robert, George Hroska, Joe Goletz, Mike Budman, James Shannon, George Illeg, Vincent Stunga, Joseph Kromer. One fell on the railroad track, was barely dragged to safety before an oncoming freight train. For the shootings a mine boss and six guards were clapped into jail...