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Four crooks drove up to the Crookston, Minn. county jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most...
Within 24 hours swift British justice sentenced 50 mobsmen and four mobs-women to pay a fine of 40 shillings each ($6.80) or spend a fortnight in jail. Meanwhile a new danger threatened. From industrial centres all over England, Scotland and Wales thousands of jobless men were stubbornly walking toward London, lashed by high winds, whipped by pelting rain. Called "dupes of Moscow" by the London Press, these marchers will try to see the Prime Minister this week and on Nov. 1 will send a "Committee of Fifty" who will try to reach the Houses of Parliament bearing a petition...
Three years ago the Czechoslovakian Government sentenced another Slovak Separatist to 15 years in jail for fostering just such ideas. Last week they let Father Hlinka and his fellow Slovaks talk, hoped they would do nothing...
Died. Sam Edwards, 72, Cincinnati hermit, onetime carpenter; in Cincinnati. He was the last surviving member of the 1884 Cincinnati jury which by returning the lenient verdict of manslaughter against Murderer William Berner, roused Cincinnati citizens into storming the jail, plunged Cincinnati into three high days of murder, arson and pillage in which 50 were killed, hundreds injured, millions of dollars worth of property destroyed...
...flame of anger swept through Albion and neighboring communities. Fuel was added by report of Andy's previously attacking a child, and a constable. State police had to guard the bears in their cage at Industry while the Redshaws rested in jail. Fred Redshaw offered to give Andy to the Rochester Zoo if his life were spared. But Miss Mary Foubister, secretary of the Rochester Dog Protective Association, demanded sterner justice. She appealed to the State Conservation Commission, soon was standing by while a State policeman pumped shotgun slugs into Andy until he was dead...