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Last week in Calcutta, where Saint Gandhi had sat in jail 22 days charged with holding one of his "propaganda bonfires," he was finally brought to trial. As the "Biggest Little Man in India" stepped spryly into Court everyone rose, even the Crown Prosecutor, in deference to the Prisoner-Saint...
...sent fourth-offending liquor dispensers away for all time. From Michigan's habitual criminal act were excepted 120 minor felonies, including the wearing of a lodge pin without authority. As a compensation to the Anti-Saloon League, the State Legislature decreed that every prohibition violator must go to jail for from 50 days to four years, and pay a fine...
...daughter going away with young Pat Kelly, Cohen telegraphs the Atlantic City police please they should arrest Cohen and Kelly, so the police arrest Cohen Sr. and old Mrs. Kelly arriving there to bring back young Kelly and Cohen; and then Mrs. Cohen and Papa Kelly come to jail too and Mr. Cohen is so crazy-acting they padlock him alongside an ugly crook. It would be much funnier cut to two reels and without its terrible subtitles. Best shot: Cohen trying to get his wallet away from...
...Springfield, Mass., District Court last week, one Thomas McGregor announced that he had been drunk for the full six months of a term he had just served in Hampden County Jail. He said he drank the denatured alcohol used for shellac in the prison workshop...
...pictures appeared as the result of her discovery by a sharp-eyed prison surgeon in Brixton Jail, where the callipygian captain was temporarily detained a fortnight ago on a charge of bankruptcy. One of the most fetching of these pictures (see below), shows her wearing the collar of an officer in the Legion of Honor, while across the scarlet bosom of her mess jacket dangle the British D.S.O.; the Star of Mons, the Cross of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm...