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...visited with her friends Governor and Mrs. Victor A. Donahey of Ohio. The Governor, noted for his interest in prison reform, wished to find out about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers and thieves, found them kindly and conditions, on the whole, satisfactory...
...arrested on a warrant charging drunkenness. A deputy sheriff who made the arrest said he found the Representative in a downtown building only partially dressed. In court, the Representative called his accuser a liar and, according to the judge, used profanity. So he was sentenced to ten hours in jail and a $10 fine. The jail sentence was reduced to four hours at the request of his wife and physician...
...serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge of accusing Admiral Horthy. He was allegedly arrested for an old crime of slandering a politician, for which he had been sentenced to 14 days in jail. This weird procedure created almost as great a sensation as did the charge against the Regent...
...Citizen: Helen Keller Actress: Lois Wilson* (cinema) Athlete: Joe Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston B. Means, famed supersleuth of the Daugherty Department of Justice, star witness of the all-star oil investigations last year, many times tried, surrendered at Washington and was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary (his first time in jail) to serve two years, following failure to rid himself of a conviction for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, Senate reformer, announced that he would make one speech a month in the interest of a rule which would permit a majority of the Senate...
They took Hubert Rampley out and flogged him. They did not think he should keep company with Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Skidmore, who had not yet secured her divorce. The floggers, sentenced to seven months in jail, were five, deacons all of the Atkins Avenue Baptist Church, Cedar Grove...