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When, in December 1928, Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, mother of ten, was sent to jail for life for selling two pints of 'shine, there was such public outcry, within and without the State, against the severity of the law that the Legislature last year made changes which took liquor law violations out of the category of life offenses. For a fourth liquor offense the penalty was fixed at the term to which Governor Green has now reduced the sentences of the five "lifers...
Next day Governor Green instructed his Attorney-General, Wilber M. Brucker, to investigate the State's enforcement officers for negligence in executing the State Prohibition Act, with its minimum mandatory jail sentence of one year for first offenders. Likewise he prepared to secure the necessary appropriations to equip his State police on Prohibition enforcement duty with three bullet-proof automobiles, a dozen bullet-proof vests, six Thompson machine guns, a large supply of tear...
...petition which was handed to the doorman. What action Ambassador Guggenheim then took behind scenes is not known, but two days later President Machado ordered the two editors, Carlos Dellunde of Santiago's La Region and Jose Arroyo Ramos of Santiago's La Independence, released from jail...
...stumble into a "sapping day"-a roundup of hoboes by embattled farmers-are forced to run the gauntlet, finally escape to a deserted "jungle" and fall exhaustedly to sleep, only to wake in the arms of the police. A heartless judge gives them each 120 days in the county jail...
Here they find a motley gang. "Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial or removal to the penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under...