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...office. The post office belongs to Nell Tingley. She rents it for $11.75 a month to the Government and lives in the two rooms over it. A nice woman, from Virginia, but everyone knew her husband was Roy ("Pete") Traxler, one of the convicts who escaped from a Texas prison farm on July 8, who later kidnapped Baird H. Markham Jr., Yale junior (son of a New York oil executive), held him for a day and kept...
...prison at Kilby, Ala. was Negro Haywood Patterson, 24, convicted for the fourth time in January 1936 of raping Victoria Price, and sentenced to 75 years. In the jail at Birmingham were Negro Clarence Norris, 24, similarly convicted last fortnight and sentenced to death; Negro Andy Wright, 25, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 99 years; Negro Charlie Weems, 26, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 75 years; and Negro Ozie Powell, 22, excused from the rape charge but sentenced to 20 years for knifing a guard last year...
...Flanders as an independent country apart from Belgium, were duped into thinking Imperial Germany would aid their separation. They consequently gave much aid and comfort in Flanders to the invading German Army. For such acts of "treachery" many of King Albert's Flemish subjects were condemned to varying prison terms and many, when they got out of jail, remained deprived of their civil rights, unable to vote in Belgian elections. To end this state of affairs and let bygones be bygones, is the purpose of the Amnesty Law (TIME, June 14), but ever since being enacted it has been...
...that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after...
Bankruptcy laws of today were not part of the old common law. A bankrupt was treated as a criminal. Statutes eventually freed debtors from the fear of prison and by passing through bankruptcy m his own community a man could be released from all his debts anywhere in the U. S. except for taxes and debts for fraud or willful injury. Yet thousands of indebted individuals, because of distaste for bankruptcy or ignorance or inability to take advantage of bankruptcy provisions, have suffered the penalty of having their wages or salaries attached under garnishment proceedings. There were an estimated...