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...call from the Manhattan apartment of Tammany's crafty Boss Curry. When news of this got out Manhattan newspapers pictured a worried Tammany with its back against a closed door from behind which came the querulous voice of Horse Doctor Doyle saying: "I don't want to go to jail." Max D. Steuer, one of Tammany's slickest and most willing legal henchman, quickly announced that it was he who had telephoned from the Curry apartment. He had, he said, telephoned to his wife at Loon Lake. But the New York Telephone Co. declared that calls-to Loon Lake never...
...sort he loves, of logic and the law. Judge Cardozo could find no satisfactory previous ruling on such a case. But fearing that "grave prejudice to the cause of public justice might ensue" if Dr. Doyle jumped bail and disappeared, he decided that the appellant must go to jail until the whole Court of Appeals had been recalled from its vacation to judge the matter...
...back!" and "We want something to eat!" they rushed the constables. Casualties: three Negroes killed, 20 Negroes and whites injured. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered further evictions to cease. ¶Near Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., occurred Lynching No. 4 for the year. The victim, Oscar Livingston, 23, had been jailed on a charge of attempted rape of a young white woman. Eight days after his incarceration a band of masked white men broke into the jail, drove Negro Livingston 15 mi., made him get out of the car and run for it. They shot him as he ran. ¶Three...
David O'Shea, a farm boy from Knock Naloman, County Cork, walked to the scaffold in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin at dawn last week. Outside the gates a morbid crowd cursed the Irish police that hanged him. It was not that they thought David O'Shea innocent, but to the Irish mind he had been caught by unfair means. Irishmen expect sportsmanship in their policemen...
...brows and heavy black mustache. Department of Justice agents telephoned Washington, telephoned Havana where Senors de Zaldo and Robaina seemed to be well known to the secret police. De Zaldo was charged with illegal possession of pistols, released on $500 bail. Robaina was released after spending a night in jail...