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...suite at the fashionable St. Francis Hotel, with two Rolls-Royces at his beck and adjoining rooms for the newspaper boys, Mayor Walker pondered the uncomfortable predicament in which he had placed his friend Sunny Jim. If the Governor should pardon Thomas Mooney after 15 years in jail, people could say that it took the interference of a gaudy outsider to bring justice into the golden State. If he decided not to pardon him, the same people could say that the Governor had been frightened out of seeing justice done because of the bitter feeling his New York crony...
Patriot. Fortnight ago in Philadelphia, one Orlandi Spartaco, 26, jumped on the running board of a car carrying Dino Grandi, Fascist Italy's visiting Foreign Minister. Jabbering, "Down with Grandi! Down with Fascism!" Anti-Fascist Spartaco was dragged off to jail, sentenced to two riot." To years Governor imprisonment Gifford for Pinchot "inciting to last week sleek, smiling, politic Minister Grandi wired : "I have not the slightest intention of interfering with the administration of justice in this country, but I feel that I could make a personal appeal to you to take into consideration the possibility...
...Morgantown, W. Va., Jessie Jolliffe decided to commit suicide. He paid all his bills, then called on an undertaker, asked the price of a funeral. The undertaker told him. Jessie Jolliffe objected, started a fight. Police arrested him. a judge sentenced him to six months in jail...
...Arbor, Mich., Ed and Manuel Smith waited in jail 107 days to be tried for simple larceny, carrying a maximum penalty of 90 days. A judge credited them with 17 days each on the next sentence they receive...
...Mountain Home, Ark., inmates of the Baxter County jail are charged $1 per day for board & lodging, billed when released, prosecuted for nonpayment...