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Three weeks ago the Brothers Zrike, rich Syrian-American merchants, were clapped into jail for participating in customs frauds. Their stores throughout the island were locked up under Government seal. But what, the opposition Press wanted to know, was to be done about their accomplices? Was there one law for Haitians, another for Yanquis? Last week U. S. prestige definitely fell when Collector of Customs David P. Johnson of Hyde Park, Mass., an efficient, frugal man who had been stationed in Haiti twelve years, confessed to cheating Haiti in return for bribes from the Brothers Zrike...
Doors were battered in, homes raided, prisoners rushed to jail, clattering patrols of cavalry were called out, motor cars everywhere were stopped and searched. Two boys 14 and 15 years old were shot down at the base of the General Gomez statue as dangerous enemies of the Republic of Cuba. With blazing guns and a fine disregard for passersby police chased one youth right down the middle of the Prado...
...Inez, Ky., John Mills choked his mother to death in a religious ceremony, went to jail. During the Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent...
...Factor was fighting extradition to England on charges of having gulled Britons of some $5,000,000 (TIME, June 8, 1931). Hearing that Chicago kidnappers had marked him, he paid Chicago Gang Leader Alphonse Capone to tell them, "Lay off Jake Factor-or else. . . ." Last week, with Capone in jail, four men jumped out of a car on a Chicago street and grabbed Factor's anemic Son Jerome, 19, Northwestern University Junior. They wrote Factor, who is still at large, to get ready $50,000 in small bills or receive Jerome "in parts." Said...
...Eventually, he is discharged by his paper, for running off with the feminine impediments of his chief, and indulges in long recriminations. He succeeds, however, in having the head of GPU shot at by mistake, taking the bullet himself, and attempting to receive the credit. He is thrown into jail, but talks himself out, and leaves, reinstated by his paper, to marry Kate, of whose value he has finally become aware...