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...Presbyterian and worth $1,000,000 which her shrewd, deceased husband made trading horses and in real estate. Last summer King Stephen III of the gypsy house of Kaslov, ruler of 10,000 scattered subjects, had to get his son Prince Willie, 17, out of a Newark, N. J. jail. Prince Willie had stolen a car and run away with a crown worth $4.500 and the tribal funds because he did not fancy the wife his father had bought for him. Last week near Los Angeles gypsy royalty made more news. Several months ago, swart Mark Adams...
...Philadelphia, Orlandi Spartaco, whose antiFascism impelled him to jump on the running board of visiting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi's car two months ago and shout insults, was released from jail on $1,000 bail. The Italian statesman had pleaded with Governor Gifford Pinchot to release Zealot Spartaco from a two-year prison sentence...
...from their schoolgirl saris (shawls) and foully murdered Magistrate Stevens by pumping his chest full of lead at point blank range. A British orderly who dashed in was wounded in the hand by one of the schoolgirls last shots. Perfectly composed, they were locked up in the local British jail...
...bleaker place than Finland, namely the Tsarist prisons of Siberia. In 1914 six Tsarist Secret Police marched into Judge Svinhufvud's Court, arrested him for sedition, chased everyone out of the courthouse, sealed it with the Double Eagle of Imperial Russia and lodged their prisoner in a Finnish jail whence he would be deported to Siberia. Indomitable Mrs. Svinhufvud took in boarders while her husband languished in Siberian exile, visited him every winter by permission of the Tsarist Government-which meant a freezing journey of some 2,000 miles, much of it by sleigh...
...actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband returns to the island to save...