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...Webster Thayer, trial judge in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, held under death sentence (TIME, Sept. 27, Nov. 1, April 18, April 25) in the Dedham (Mass.) jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...
...Belzoni, Miss., five men were lodged in the County Jail, held without bond. They were charged with looting in the flooded town. Other looting reports came from surrounding farms...
Laiborite Thomas Griffiths of Pontypool (shaking his fist at the Ministerial Bench): "You wasters! . . . You blackguards! . . . You rotters! . . . You thieves! . . . Your kind put my father in jail during the big strike...
...tobacco-shop proprietor, who took part in a flinging of eggs, ice, bottles, epithets, at Cambridge police in Harvard Square, last winter (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). Each of the roisterers was required to give surety of $100 "to keep the peace and be of good behavior." Jail sentences which had been imposed by a lower court were not mentioned; hence, were dropped...
...Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department; at Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1894, when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed...