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...Sentenced in Philadelphia in 1929 to one year in jail, of which he served ten months, for carrying concealed weapons (TiME...
...feature, adds practically nothing but Philip Holmes to the bill. Moving with his usual youthful dignity across a background of juleps, magnolias, and better than average southern accents, the newly risen star comes to love and respect a father who had been a jail-bird. The picture is no better than it could...
...President Hoover by the case of Police Lieut. David T. McElliott of Great Falls, Mont. It was Officer McElliott's misfortune to be convicted last year of an "indirect" violation of the Volstead Act for which he was fined $100. Rather than pay the fine he languished in jail, the while appealing to the White House. Last week President Hoover granted him a full pardon, remitted his fine, because he had been a good policeman for 20 years...
...court Suffraget Richardson announced the whole affair was a protest against the incarceration of Chief Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst, at the time on a hunger strike in Holloway Jail...
...Angeles County Jail. Said the judge: "The jury . . . was . . . generous and sympathetic. There was abundant evidence to prove you guilty of theft in 35 instances...