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...jury, the defense used 250,000. Everyone rather expected Borah to win. He might have won in the end had not a man who later admitted killing Governor Steunenberg made some absurd charges against Haywood which discredited his earlier incriminations. Haywood was freed after 18 months in jail, a famous man and to all dissatisfied workmen a hero...
...against Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen, the first foreigner ever elevated to the Episcopacy. This character, it was alleged, has misused charity funds of the church, acting in an "imprudent and unministerial" fashion. Bishop Bast had been condemned, by a civil court in Europe, to spend three months in jail; nonetheless, his friends were confident that Bishop Bast's dilemma had been brought about by civil interference rather than by his own dishonesty. There was high feeling, sharply divided, among the delegates; the trial would be held in secrecy behind guarded doors...
...Staunton, Va., six cops made a bet with six reverend preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...
...Republican, said in an editorial last week: "Perhaps no candidate could save the Republican party this year. It has sins to answer for-and crimes. There is terrible force in the contention that the Republican party deserves punishment, if it is impossible.to put the Falls, Dohenys and Sinclairs into jail. How can it escape punishment if it rejects a candidate with the qualifications of Mr. Hoover, unless there is a candidate with higher qualifications? And where...
...first the investigation was confined to an examination of county jail prisoners, but later it was thought advisable to extend the study to the more serious offenders in penal institutions of the State, and to the criminal and the civil insane. The investigation so begun has now developed, on the anthropological side, to a survey of criminals in selected areas of the country at large...