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...sentence been for a year-and-a-day Fall would have been eligible for parole after four months in jail. Sentences of one year or less are not parolable...
...Write the name of the man you suspect on this dotted line," said the desk sergeant. Puzzled by the interpreter's translation, Petros wrote his own name, went home. There a police officer met him, took him to jail, locked him up for the night...
...Feldmarschall went Chancellor Müller. He recalled that the President is in duty bound to promulgate such measures as the Reichstag's ratification of the Young Plan, pointed out that this act of promulgation might render even Paul von Hindenburg liable to be clapped into jail under the clause of the "Liberty Law" which provides penal servitude for officials who pledge Germany to her Reparations payments. Striking result: Hero Hindenburg dropped his neutrality, publicly denounced the offending clause of the "Liberty Law" as "a personal and irrelevant attack upon myself...
...hospitals at Kiev. Nurses sometimes fainted at the gory gusto of his "carving." But always Comrade Dr. Nelski sewed up his gaping incisions with admirable neatness - as neatly as a cobbler stitching uppers to a sole. Last week a stern Kiev judge sentenced "The Slasher" to six years in jail. He had confessed that his real name is Ivan Kolesnikov, his true profession shoemaking. Eight years ago, amid the chaos of post-Revolution Russia, he stole the diploma and paraphernalia of a certain assassinated Dr. Nelski, palmed himself off as a surgeon on ignorant Tashkenters. "I looked upon...
...exactly ethical. Perhaps the vision of their own offspring in such a predicament appalls them or maybe it is just an overabundance of sympathy. Nevertheless, the fact remains that putting little boys in pens for a few hours is much less vicious than hauling them off to the local jail and from the antics of those confined, it is doubtful if their sensibilities are in any way impaired...