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...Among the 27,000 political prisoners in jail last week was Tycoon Purushotanbas Thakureas, reputed Bombay's richest cotton broker, and Mr. J. M. Sen Gupta who was Mayor of the great city of Calcutta when taken into custody...
...five-year plan was the sentence of five years in jail imposed by a Belgian court on one Fernando de Rosa who shot at but missed Italian Crown Prince Umberto when he came a-courting to Belgium (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Last week King Albert pardoned Shooter de Rosa who has been in jail two and a half years. Unofficially both the Belgian Court and the Italian Court announced that King Albert exercised his power of pardon by request of his son-in-law, Crown Prince Umberto. H. R. H. and his buxom Belgian wife (Princess Marie...
...years for murder. Sharp-eyed Editor Richard James Finnegan read a small item in the Tribune telling of the deathbed confession of the murder by another man. He dug up two female witnesses who had testified against Lucas, got them to confess perjury. Now Lucas is out of jail, making quilts which Times girl employes are helping to sell. Meanwhile Editor Finnegan is personally presenting Lucas' case for full pardon...
...Manhattan, Victor ("Scratch") Hedman spent his birthday, the first out of jail since 1915, writing letters to his friends, boasting of his release. After dinner he was arrested for forging a check...
...when his doting mother, with the help of a family adviser, tricks him into believing Kitty is unfaithful, carts him off to Europe. Kitty, falsely led to believe that David offered her money to set him free, is left to her own devices, which consist of a season in jail for promiscuity, affairs with many men in many places, a rise to fame as an actress. Now a woman of some importance, she is unrelenting when David returns, until she has given him opportunity to take it on the chin himself. Good shots: close-ups of Miss Stanwyck...