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Proudly he went to jail. Proudly Platon returned to the dim Cathedral under the protecting shadow...
...FALL GUY-The trials of a flat-dweller in Manhattan who could not hold his job and nearly went to jail in the last...
...large number of Prohibition cases in arrears before the courts. The effort was made. Mail)7 convictions resulted. Now the result is being felt. The Federal prisons at Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeill's Island are badly overcrowded. Some prisoners have been "boarded" by the Federal Government in local jails-an expensive business for the Government. In order to reduce the crowding, the board of paroles has been ordered to expedite its work. Ordinarily a bootlegger sentenced to a year in jail cannot get out on parole under six months. Now many are being paroled in four months...
...Pikeville, Ky., John W. Langley, Kentucky Congressman, convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, and out on bail, was tried on another charge-drunkenness. Arrested on the charge of a woman several weeks ago (TIME, June 22), he spent several hours in jail for using profanity in court when he denied the charge. Last week, at the trial for drunkenness, he testified that he had stopped, exhausted, at a friend's apartment to take medicine for dizziness; had taken a cold bath, but no intoxicant, and, coming from the bathroom, had gone to the door of a woman...
...room performing feats. His sister ran for a policeman. Mr. Garcia knocked down the peaked bluecoat. Came another. Mr. Garcia bit him; he hit Mr. Garcia with a blackjack; Mr. Garcia dived from the window into the clutches of two more officers who lugged him, roaring, off to jail...