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...have shot into a herd of her goats. A strange "red, white & blue" pig also figured in the dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...
...with a trainload of dvnamite to blow up the bridge at Lora del Rio. These fell captive to a squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier. At daybreak in Huelva a sleepy police mannamed Joaquin Segovia was stopped by two cars, asked...
Dirty and discouraged, 44 men were marched out of the Trujillo jail one day last week at 5:30 a.m. Not far away they entered a line of badly constructed trenches which they had dug just a month ago in Trujillo's short bloody revolt (TIME, July 18). Soldiers lined the parapet. At a word of command the 44 men, helplessly dodging back & forth, were shot down. Thus last week did peppery little President Luis Sanchez Cerro signal the stability of his regime, celebrate the 111th anniversary of Peruvian independence...
...common conception of crime & punishment is that three out of four convicts reform after a term in a reformatory or after a period under probation. Precisely the reverse is true, according to a thorough study of Massachusetts ex-convicts.* Three out of four men who once were in jail return there. The causes of original imprisonment were in most cases petty. The prisoners were unlearned in crime. But in reform schools and jails they found good teachers. The urban gangster is usually a reform school graduate, a county jail postgraduate...
...confused with criminal suits brought against racketeering associations for restraint of trade, in which jail sentences are often secured...