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Earlier in the week in Washington there was much judicial juggling of Fall's one-year sentence. Army physicians upon examination had found him suffering from chronic tuberculosis, chronic pleurisy, arthritis and arteriosclerosis. To keep him in a dry climate and out of humid Washington's jail, a considerate judge changed his sentence to a year & a day. This technicality gave Attorney General Mitchell authority to designate the New Mexico penitentiary for his imprisonment. The change also brought Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against...
When British tramps, known locally as Weary Willies, wish lodgement at the public expense, they do not apply for a vacant cell in the county jail, as in the U. S., but go to the local poorhouse where they are lodged in what is known as the Casual Ward. Here each one is given a meal, a bath, a bed, a nightshirt. The Ministry of Health after an exhaustive investigation of Casual Wards recommended the following improvements...
...tenets were internationalism, universal peace, love and tolerance for all, education, work and equality for men and women. Persecution, next best thing to martyrdom for making a religion grow, followed Baha'u'l lah though it is difficult to see how his gentle faith should have bothered anyone. From jail to exile to jail he went, throughout the East. In the early years of Baha'i (as the faith came to be known) 20,000 of its followers were martyred...
...Potsdam, Germany, a man was arrested for greeting the Republican flag with catcalls and groans. His defense: that when he had cried "Hoch!" he had swallowed his cigaret, that the supposed catcalls were "reflex regurgitation." His sentence: three weeks in jail...
...perpetual case of the jitters (Charles Ruggles). Engaged to marry a debutante with a dignified mother, he is pursued with kindly intent by an ardent blonde (Tamara Geva), later, with less kindly intent, by her gangster husband. To escape the gangster, the young man tries to get himself jailed, succeeds in going to the same jail as the gangster. Here he finds the warden guilty of crooked bookkeeping, is later discovered, by his fiancee and mother, lying under a bed which belongs to the warden's wife. The suspense which provokes most of the comedy in The Girl Habit...