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...less lovely incidents of Indiana statesmanship, had received word that if he kept quiet until after the election he would be "taken care of." He had kept quiet, but his reticence had not been rewarded. In June he had protested against the treatment he was getting in the jail, and an investigating board had found his complaints unfounded. Last week he asked Governor Ed. Jackson for a 90-day parole so that he could personally conduct his plea to the State Supreme Court for a retrial of the Oberholtzer case. Governor Jackson refused his request...
...Parisian telephone operator, a mother, Mme. Montard had just been put in jail. And how then could she perform her duty to the babe which had nestled at her breast a few hours before? In jail! And what was to become of her four elder children, none as yet in their teens? In jail! And why was Mme. Montard in jail...
...gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when M. Daudet escaped, and to back down tamely now in the matter of M. Daudet's telephone operator would be to lose still more "face." Therefore the Premier stood adamant when a motion of censure against the Government was introduced...
...horse, Tony, do their stuff once again, this time for the reluctant heart of a circus queen. Amongst other adventures possible in the woolly West, they break jail, lasso the girl off the back of a runaway elephant, write "I love you" into a wooden fence with bullets. The sheepish grin, buoyant acrobatics, baffled villain are on hand as usual. All in all, a good Tom Mixture...
...told about being sent to see if Colonel Lindbergh had any "airdrome sweethearts" out on Long Island. She spoke with eagerness of visiting a jail which lodged a Brooklyn murderess "who killed her husband and now is sorry." One of her experiences, as she told it at length, was patly typical of the kind of education the Daily News gives its reporters and readers...