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...weeks ago with various officials of the German Embassy. They exceeded the speed limit and were halted by the Law in the town of Bolivar, W. Va. Dr. Wiedfeldt explained his diplomatic immunities, but the justice of Bolivar was unimpressed. The Ambassador paid $5.60 rather than go to jail...
...Governor threatened to throw the Legislators into jail if they tried to meet...
...McBee, leader of the Legislators, answered: " The Legislature will meet. ... I would lie in jail until I rot rather than part with my ideas of American liberty...
...Powers. The powers conferred upon General Comissioner von Kahr vested him with authority to call troops and to use troops, to arrest whom he chooses, to keep prisoners in jail without trial, to seize the property of persons declared to be enemies of the nation. The German Constitution was suspended as far as Bavaria was concerned?laws definitely suspended were: freedom of speech, press, assembly, telephone; secrecy of mail; secrecy and sanctity of person, dwelling and property. Habeas corpus was declared abolished...
DOCTOR NYE-Joseph C. Lincoln -Appleton ($2.00). When Doctor Nye came back to North Ostable his return and the reasons for it offered a perennial bonne bouche for all the gossips of Cape Cod, Why, the man had embezzled a church fund and gone to jail for it (and it was lucky his poor wife had died just before he was found out). How Doctor Nye rehabilitated himself against heavy odds-how he protected two young star-crossed lovers in spite of their warring families-how he finally established his innocence even in the eyes of his pompous brother...