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Miami put "Scarface Al" into jail as an undesirable resident. Two hours and a half later Capone, raging with anger, was out again on a writ of habeas corpus...
...Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases as fraudulent, convicted Albert Bacon Fall of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward Laurence Doheny. Important witnesses became fugitives in Europe. He failed to convict Doheny or Harry Ford Sinclair of conspiracy, though he did send Sinclair to jail for contempt of court. He was a harddriving, hard-working prosecutor who dug up new evidence in the oil scandals and integrated it to convince the public, if not District of Columbia juries, of gross wrongdoing...
Maurice E. Connolly, onetime president of Queens (one of New York City's five boroughs), convicted of fat fraud in sewer contracts (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), lost his appeal, went to jail for a year. Said he: "Why make a Mardi Gras of it? ... the public loves a victim. . . . I'll serve my sentence with a clear conscience. . . . I'll read a whole bagful of good literature I brought over with...
That Mohammedan reprisals against followers of Hindu St. Gandhi did not at once break out was due to his great shrewdness. Before he was spirited off to jail he appointed as his successor that venerable Mohammedan Abbas Tyabji, onetime judge of the Baroda court. Result: at Amritsar leaders of the Sikh Mohammedans, "best fighters in India," last week declared for St. Gandhi and independence...
...special apartments at the Poona jail, the special herd purchased to provide the Saint with goat's milk, the special chef hired to pamper the prisoner's taste (TIME, May 12), not even all these luxuries sufficed. Poona was deemed too warm. By means so secret that no detail leaked out, the prisoner was spirited to Purandhar Military Sanitarium at the salubrious altitude of 4,500 ft. There every day, whether he liked it or not, St. Gandhi received a tender but thorough physical examination by a corps of British physicians. As during the illness of George...