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...Peru's famed "Bantam Roosevelt," ousted President Augusto B. Leguia, got his start by selling U. S. life insurance, became Dictator of Peru for eleven consecutive years and has languished for the past 14 months deathly sick in a noisome Lima jail...
...lonely cabin on Paradise Lake near Seattle, police found E. V. Maltby, onetime wealthy vice president & general manager of the defunct Rural Grain Co. of Chicago. He had grown a beard, stocked the cabin with provisions. He was held in Seattle jail for Chicago authorities on an indictment charging nine violations of the Grain Futures...
Busy newshawks immediately figured that if he got time off for good behavior Snorkey would spend six years, eight months, 15 days in the penitentiary and eleven months in the Cook County jail, a total of seven years, seven months, 15 days. By that time he would be 40. In addition to his $50,000 fine he was charged with court costs estimated by the prosecution at $30,000, and he still owed $215,000 in back taxes...
...seemed to lose weight as he stood before the bar. Finally he got down his coughdrop, smiled weakly at his attorneys, Michael Ahern & Albert Fink. Up stepped Messrs. Ahern & Fink, pleaded for leniency. Said the judge: "I think I will adhere to my ruling." Then he ordered Capone to jail "forthwith." The lawyers filed notice of appeal...
...Kiel an irate German court sat in three shifts 24 hours a day last week trying 120 leatherfaced German seamen. With clocklike precision they were sentenced to two months in jail each. Their crime: tying up 41 German vessels in the harbor of Leningrad by a mighty mass strike...