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...provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners will leave jail more angry than when they entered...
Prisoners who leave jail "more angry than when they entered...
...mother decides it's high time to halt the family weakness for defaulting. This time she'll be firm and signal for the police. Her son's sweetheart, whose estate the son has largely defrauded, suddenly decides that jail is none too good for him. (He has just reminded her that her dad killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund...
...miners struck "volun-tarily," according to Howat. He and other officials were ordered to appear before the District court, but refused, saying: "We do not recognize the court's authority or existence. Judges do not know the coal mining business. We refuse to answer questions." He was jailed for contempt of court. Given permission by the sheriff to speak from the balcony of jail, he called Governor Allen of Kansas "a skunk of a Governor...
...Mahatma" (Wonder Worker) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of the Non-Cooperatists, was released unconditionally from jail. For some time he has been in a hospital and his state of health was such that the attending physicians recommended six months at the seaside as indispensable for his convalescence...