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Soon it appeared that only small fry have been jailed. Still at liberty in Colmar is that master mind of pro-German plotters in Alsace, the notorious Abbé Haegy. A tall, ascetic priest, with cold eyes, thin lips and eloquently gesturing hands, he was busy last week personally editing his pro-German newspaper, while several members of its staff languish in jail...
...turned over to Prosecutor Remy a large black box containing many Indiana secrets. One-time Governor McCray, now out of the penitentiary, wishing to re-establish a reputation as a gentleman-farmer and honest man, has announced his willingness to tell everything. Should Governor Jackson be hustled off to jail, people are wondering what kind of a governor Prosecutor Remy would make. Some also wonder whether he could end the Senatorial career of James E. Watson by succeeding...
...Negro named Henry Ford who robbed her apartment in Atlanta, Ga. Said she: "Please let him go, judge. He only got 17 cents in my apartment." Judge Virlyn B. Moore listened with compassion, then sen- tenced Negro Ford, who had two other robberies against him, to three years in jail...
Carl Wiedemann (owner of famed racehorse, In Memoriam) arrived in a special car at the Atlanta Penitentiary to serve a two-year term for violation of the Volstead Act. His father, George, president of the Wiedemann Brewing Co., did not go to jail with him, but paid the U. S. a $10,000 fine. His horse, In Memoriam, remained on his stud farm at Newport, Ky., munching bluegrass. As a three-year-old, In Memoriam outran Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's swift Zev at the $50,000 Latonia stakes on Nov. 3, 1923. Two weeks later, Zev defeated...
Still unregenerate, still unafraid of death, "Red" Moran was brought from the Sing Sing death house last week for a new trial. They took him to a jail wherein one of his enemies, William Reid, had been locked up for a minor offense. Hearing that "Red" Moran was coming, William Reid quietly took a spoon and ground its handle until it was as sharp and keen as a knife...