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...this jury indicts me I hope it won't make the bail too high." The jury did indict him, along with Mayor Shaw's civil service commissioner, William Cormack, and another officeholder named only as "John Doe," on felony charges carrying a possible 14-year prison sentence...
Oklahomans are hardened to school scandals. Two former Oklahoma City School Board officials were sentenced to prison, Treasurer Ray Scruggs for stealing some $500,000 of school money, Attorney Frank Wilkins (now out on bond while his conviction is appealed) for taking bribes in connection with sale of oil royalties on school property. Last summer a grand jury recommended the ouster of all nine members of Oklahoma City's School Board, charging, among other things, that the board had failed to take sealed competitive bids for extermination of termites infesting a school building. Unflustered by this departure from Oklahoma...
Possible light on this recent epidemic of Harvard robberies was seen last night when police said a man named Lehman, who has been in prison for a series of notorious college breaks made some years ago, was recently released...
Known from Maine to Alabama, Lehman went to prison after robberies at the Advocate and elsewhere in the college; he customarily worked from 6 to 7 o'clock in the mornings...
Socrates sat up on his couch and rubbed his leg where the chains had grated against the skin. Dusty streaks of the afternoon sun cut through the prison window. At his feet fourteen men squatted on the floor and marvelled at his quiet courage in the face of--death. Was this death, they thought, do men ever die this...