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...case dragged along in the courts, and "Governor" Taylor kept out of jail. One day in May the Supreme Court of the U. S. made a decision.* Mr. Taylor paced up and down in the District Attorney's office at Louisville, waiting for the news. Suddenly he cried: "I must go to my home in Butler county.'" and rushed out of the room, his black coattails dancing behind him, his black "Colonel's" hat flapping with the speed...
Soon one of the parents, Vladimir Orlovsky, an aviator, went home and destroyed his three-year-old idiot son. With lightning swiftness a Soviet court found him "technically guilty of murder," sentenced Aviator Orlovsky to six months in jail, then suspended the sentence, allowing him to remain free...
...manner ill befitting a virgin from Louisiana. Repulsing them, she finds temporary shelter in a vacant Park Avenue apartment, at the suggestion of a Negro maid who knows her own Negro maid. Jewels are stolen from the apartment. The owners unexpectedly return from Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners. Said Carl Helm, critic of the New York Sun: "Of course, we may expect things like this during the hot spell, along with the hives and sunburn...
Finally the Court became so disconcerted that Comrade Kun's examination was abruptly terminated, and he received a trifling sentence of one month's imprisonment in addition to the two months he has already spent in jail awaiting trial. Loomed next the question of whether Kun can be extradited to Hungary, where he would be tried and unquestionably executed for ordering 144 executions during his 143 days of dictatorship. Portentously the Court of Justice at Vienna and the Court of Appeal of First Instances ruled, last week, that Comrade Bela Kun should be extradited to face certain Death...
...snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced the thief to jail...