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Killer Powers was rushed for safety from the city to the county jail while police began to investigate the activities of Luella Struthers, a wife whom he had not killed, who still lived with him and who had paid for construction of the garage. They learned she had been divorced by a man acquitted of murder in 1903, had met Powers through a marriage agency. They sought to connect her with a check forged on Mrs. Eicher's account and with a letter written to relatives of Mrs. Lemke. Police elsewhere, investigating Powers' courtships, learned he had been...
...Syndicalists, bane of the young republic, were out on a general strike. No milk was delivered, no garbage collected. Electric light and gas lines were cut. No trolleys ran. Violence started when Civil Governor Anguero visited the jail to plead with 51 hunger-striking Syndicalists to eat. The prisoners, who in some way had obtained guns, replied by firing a few wild shots, collecting all the furniture in the jail and making a bonfire of it. Riot squads rushed in to quiet them...
Belle Livingstone, aged scofflaw who was sentenced to 30 days in jail for bootlegging in her swanky three-story saloon in Manhattan's 58th Street (TIME, Feb. 16), opened a new resort outside Reno, Nev. Converted from a dairy barn, the place is decorated with pictures of monkeys; a troupe of dancing Negresses perform monkeyshines. In a nearby outhouse there...
...jail at Blackpool, England, Frank Sheridan ate his breakfast, then ate his spoon. Still hungry, he tore the chain and staple from his cell door and ate them too. Satisfied, Prisoner Sheridan lay down, went to sleep...
...Davenport, Iowa, clever Convict Miller borrowed an automobile, started for Chicago. At Dixon, 111., he came upon something he had never seen before or during his twelve years in prison?a red traffic light. He gave it one contemptuous kok and drove merrily on. That night in the Dixon jail "Arthur Morris," arrested for driving through a stop light, told the story of Arthur Miller's clever escape to a sympathetic cellmate. The sympathetic cellmate told a sympathetic sheriff. The next thing Arthur Miller-Morris knew he was back in Joliet. sans golf togs, sans automobile, sans his cleverly...