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...felons are automatically imprisoned for life, some States copied this severe code, while others watched critically its operation as a penological experiment. Only executive clemency could save convicts from the machine-like precision of these criminal statutes. Last week other States saw New York send its first woman to jail for life under their stiff provisions. She was Ruth St. Clair, 30, kleptomaniac. Her fourth offense was stealing from Manhattan's John Wanamaker store $121 worth of dresses and baby ware for which she had no need...
...heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because "I didn't know how hard you had to heave to really break the glass." She went to jail, the first of seven such trips. Four jail terms she went on hunger strikes. She kept count of the number of times jailers forcibly rammed food down her throat. The count was 232. Once she gnawed a hole in her prison mattress, made a heap of the stuffings, twisted pages of her cell...
Albion (Mich.) College students, good Methodists, gleefully watched their basketball team beat their longtime Presbyterian rivals, Alma College (Alma, Mich.). After the game some 250 Albions tried to crash into a local cinema. Police arrested 150, but could find place for only twelve in the town jail. These were released by friends with pickaxes and crowbars. While the rest were being piled into a truck to be locked up in another town, their cronies fought with the constabulary. Addressed by the President of the College to no avail, the rioting continued until state troopers and tear gas bombs dispersed...
...Rockford, Ill., Ray Barry, 34, was married, for the seventh time, to a woman who had previously been his fourth wife. After the ceremony, Ray Barry had his fifth wife put in jail for annoying him, then decided to divorce his fourth and seventh wife to get married, for the eighth time, to his sixth wife...
...Werner himself was prosecuted and threatened with jail some time ago. His patients banded together, contributed money for his defense, organized the American Bureau of Chiropractic. Dr. C. P. Eifertsen, bureau vice president, is now serving a three-months sentence at the Richmond County Jail for practicing medicine without a license. Chiropractic "straights" belong to the Bureau. It excludes "mixers." "Mixers" are those practitioners who mix hocus pocus with chiropractic...