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...warm admirers and follow ers, remindful of the $7,000,000 he has given to charities, schools, universities in Peking and his clemency in pardoning many a Chinaman languishing in jail, called this latest manifestation of Marshal Chang's will the "Magna Charta," the "Chinese Droits de l'Homme...
...Maryland Jail. Between the bank of the Choptank River and the village green in leisurely, New Englandish Denton, Md., stands the Caroline County Jail. It is a charming place, accommodating some 25 prisoners, 18 of whom are convicted bootleggers. Last week, Sheriff William F. Jackson made comment: "The fellows the Government sends down here are all right and do not cause me a bit of trouble. ... I believe in treating the boys fairly. . . . They are locked in their cells at night and then I let them out in the jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river...
Once more I am writing to you from the penitentiary; I wrote to you last year and you printed part of my letter in one of your numbers of July with my photograph [TIME, Aug. 23, 1926]. I am again in jail. I have been arrested on June 24. The last time I have not been tried; I will not be tried this time any more. The President of Haiti, L. Borno, said to a representative of the Chicago Tribune that the prisoners will be released when he happens to think of them again. This has been printed in many...
...seven editors of newspapers in jail, with the President of "L'Union Patriotique" and the Secretary of that Association. Nine altogether. Please read the Nation and help...
...these two Italians, Nicola Sacco, had worked in a shoe factory and cultivated a garden in Stoughton, Mass., before he was sent to jail for murder, seven years ago. He had a wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...