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Edward was arrested for murder. Rose left home vowing never again to see her father or her lover's murderer-her brother. Then she changed her mind, visited Edward in jail, said: "I am here because I love my brother." To the police the elder Allen told of Mrs. Allen's deathbed request to break up her daughter's alliance, declared that pugnacious Francis Donaldson had previously knocked out two of his younger son William's teeth, had even punched his (Father Allen's) face in similar quarrels. He also said that the Donaldson family...
...imposing sentence on the convicted Communists ("all common working men"), Mr. Justice Wright declared: "The Communist Party itself has been on trial as much as these eight men." All except Thomas Cacic, who got off with two years in jail, will serve five years, will then face deportation. All property of the Communist Party in Ontario, the Court decreed, shall be confiscated. Said Tim Buck, leader of the eight: "What I did I did for the working class. I worked hard for the Party, believing I was right...
...250th anniversary of the arrival in America of William Biddle, who bought a land grant on the shores of the Delaware before William Penn and his colonists arrived. Among the descendants at the celebration was debonair Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., free on a stay of execution from a jail sentence in Manhattan for refusing to answer questions in the bankruptcy case of Sonora Products Co. In the Philadelphia city directory are 132 Biddies, of whom 70 are in the local social register. Most famed living Biddies: retired Banker Alexander, onetime Boxer Anthony Joseph Drexel Sr., Major Charles...
...Newark, N. J.. John Casey, 17, was held in jail in default of $10 bail for ogling maidens from a lamp post. John Casey broke out of jail, went home and got $10. On his way back to jail to deposit the bail, he was arrested again, held without bail for jailbreaking...
...Columbus, Ohio. William Phillips, serving a two-year sentence in jail, refused a parole. Said he: "Food's good, bed's good, and I like the people...