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...boys and girls under eighteen years of age were confined with hardened criminals to regular federal penal institutions; over ten per cent of the entrants at the institutions were under twenty years of age. While it may be possible to reform these young delinquents before they are confined to jail, it is virtually impossible to accomplish it once they have been treated like confirmed felons and have been forced to associate for months with men of long criminal records. The crimes of children are now recognized as being the result as much of accident and thoughtlessness as of inherent criminal...
...Hoover, cruising in Florida, sent ashore for news. In Chicago Col. Robert Isham Randolph of the "Secret Six" warned the nation again about the rich, swift-growing racket of abduction for extortion, helped circulate a new gangland name for kidnappers: snatchers. Also in Chicago, more precisely in Cook County jail where he is waiting a last appeal against an eleven-year Federal sentence, "Scarface Al" Capone interested himself in the Lindbergh case. Offering a $10,000-reward for the baby's safe return, he indignantly remarked: "It's the most outrageous thing I ever heard of! I know...
...last time U. S. readers heard about Major General K. Martii Wallenius was almost a year ago, when he was released from jail after he had been cashiered from the army and sentenced to three years imprisonment for kidnapping Finland's George Washington, Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, her first President. General Wallenius was in the news again last week. At the head of 5,000 Lapuan Finnish Fascists he marched on Helsinki, the capital. Government troops met the advance 25 miles from the city where a skirmish occurred and the Lapuan march prudently halted. General Wallenius contented himself with...
...drummer, arrested for stealing merchandise and given a chance to make restitution rather than go to jail, argues as to whether he shall pay back at wholesale or retail prices...
...enemy named Louis Corotto (Louis Calhern), the man in whose villainous talons lie the police of his city, the District Attorney, the State's political leader and the well-meaning Governor himself. Through his influence over these public agents and agencies Louis Corotto gets a boy out of jail, arranges a diabolical plot to make it appear that the boy has killed a minor vice merchant, and pushes the whole scheme within ten minutes of an electrocution. Mr. Corotto took all this trouble because he found out that his sulky mistress (Marguerite Churchill) was the boy's best...