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...thousands of dollars "from Moscow," when a sheaf of documents was produced to prove their guilt (TIME, July 22, 1929), it was Berlin Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post who exposed the European forgers of the "Red Documents," roused German courts to clap them into jail. Last week famed Correspondent Knickerbocker sent from Berlin to Manhattan some despatches so startling that, should fire follow their smoke, he would become a very celebrated correspondent indeed. He said he had learned "from a high official German source" that...
...terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...
...three big iron prisoners' cages at Sciacca. Sicily last week 185 were placed on trial. The total would have been 214 except that the rest were "sick in their cells," according to the warden of Sciacca's jail...
Died. Signora Elvira Donturi Puccini, widow of Composer Giacomo Puccini (Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly); of heart disease; at Milan, Italy. In 1909 Signora Puccini served five months in jail for driving to suicide a servant girl whom she accused of having an affair with her husband. After the girl died she was cleared of Signora Puccini's accusation. Puccini died in 1924, aged...
...Eastview, N. Y., Oscar Williams, 253-lb. chicken thief, escaped from jail, was recaptured four days later waddling along a road ten miles from the jail. Oscar Williams stated that he had been traveling by night, sleeping by day, thought he had covered "at least 100 miles...