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Senor Leguia is now in jail (TIME, Sept. 8) charged with "illegal enrichment" while in office. He was Mr. & Mrs. Hoover's host. In their honor he hung a portrait of President James (Doctrine) Monroe next to his own in the Parliament building at Lima...
Unimpressed, the Court sentenced Alchemist Tausend to three years and eight months in jail. The Court expressed the opinion that, in his most convincing demonstrations, Tausend had concealed gold foil in a cigaret, flicked the ashes into his crucible...
...much for her, she is its prisoner. The lawyer thinks he has persuaded her to appear as his star witness. But the prosecution finds her too. When she appears at the trial her perjured testimony condemns the innocent defendant. That night a mob takes the prisoner from the jail, burns him alive. The girl's father tries to make the best of an unspeakable business by taking her abroad, trying to patch up a hopelessly smashed life. The lawyer washes his hands of Justice, retires to failure and his shrewish wife...
...worked. Then he killed Mrs. Haven and the four Haven children. He buried them in the barn. Not until November was he arrested, when he sold some of the Havens' hogs. In December he confessed his crimes. Last week he had been taken from a distant jail back to Schafer for trial...
...show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents (TIME, July 22, 1929). After a trial somewhat embarrassing internationally, in which Reporter Knickerbocker was star witness for the prosecution, M. Orloff was convicted of forgery, sentenced to jail. Rather surprisingly, Defense Attorney Walter Jaffe said of Witness Knickerbocker after the trial: "I shall never call his an agent provocateur again. I shall call him spiritus rectus: the Upright Spirit of the trial...