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Last week he called nitroglycerin to his aid in an attempt to get out. Just as he was about to touch off an ill considered charge which would have blown the jail and himself to atoms, he was shot at by a prison guard, and several other prosiners were wounded before he was killed...
...neither necessary nor wise to exclude Saklatvala. He is a member of the British Parliament. What he has said he has said there. If he comes here for the Parliamentary Union sessions and violates any law, then there is time enough to proceed against him and put him in jail if need...
...this common beginning the several stories of what then followed divericate. According to his account, as he had just finished eating he was suddenly placed under arrest, struck twice on the head so that his blood flowed, while the offending policeman deputized several onlookers to take him, unresisting, to jail. He charged that it was a "frame-up." According to the official accounts he was: 1) drunkenly throwing things around in the restaurant, or 2) being fed by two lady companions when arrested; he resisted and the policeman was obliged to deputize others present to aid in taking...
...Tokyo a court sentenced Gaku Sano, one-time professor at Waseda University, to ten months in jail for attempting to form a secret Communistic Society. He had recently returned and surrendered himself for trial, having fled to Russia two years ago when the Tokyo police were lodging radical on radical in jail...
...FALL GUY-The sad story of the unhappy little chap who could not hold his job and almost went to jail...