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...Millersburg, Ohio (pop. 2,203), Jesse Wynn, 51, and his brother William, 48, stole an old-fashioned ice box, sold it for $3. Brought before Common Pleas Judge Robert B. Putnam in the Holmes County court, they were given their choice of 30 days in jail or a public whipping of 20 lashes. They took the whipping...
...protest against the suppression of free speech in Los Angeles. . . ." began Candidate Foster. The Red Squad closed in. Candidate Foster was knocked down, dragged to jail, locked up on suspicion of violating California's Wartime criminal syndicalism law. His sympathizers were dispersed by Red Squad nightsticks, tear...
Next day three of Candidate Foster's sympathizers were still in jail, but the candidate himself, having begun his campaign in the orthodox Communist way with a night in prison, was permitted to depart to begin another campaign speech in Phoenix, Ariz., which has no Red Squad...
...Copenhagen that the Baroness was suffering from an incurable ailment, explained that she had given her mother poison in the guise of medicine to put her out of her misery. The trial of Mrs. Bang ended month and a half ago. She was sentenced to only three months in jail. Last week long, lean King Christian X sympathetically reviewed the case of his subject Mrs. Bang, pardoned...
...President Alcala Zamora, who has been surrounding himself with more & more pomp until his entourage is almost regal, announced: "I will spend most of the summer at La Granja palace," famed for its luxurious gardens, often called the Spanish Versailles. Only 15 months ago Senor Alcala Zamora was in jail...