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...Texas a black buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...
...Hull, England, fortnight ago, a crowd of about 300 gathered in the early morning before the prison yard to watch the flagstaff. Many were praying. Two unarmed policemen with their thumbs stuck purposefully in their belts kept the crowd in order. At 9 o'clock a black flag broke out on the staff. By that signal spectators knew that, despite a blizzard of petitions to the Lord Mayor of Hull, to the Home Secretary, to King George himself, Mrs. Ethel Lille Major had died on the gallows for poisoning her truckdriver husband, first woman to be executed in England...
...baseball training camps each spring. In 1928, when he was 56, Al Munro Elias lost his right leg in an auto accident. It interrupted the pursuit of his vocation for two months. Since then his Bureau has become a monopoly. His first competitor, George Moreland, long ago sent to prison for cashing bad checks, has since dropped out of sight. In addition to the age, birthday, batting average, professional ability and personal peculiarities of almost every big league baseball player, Al Munro Elias makes a habit of remembering his friends' middle names. He considers the "official" statistics released last...
...Rats & Vermin!" Dynamite at the Conference was Rumania's wild-eyed little Jan Motza, a leader of the Iron Guard which is Fascist in the loosest meaning of the term. "I come from a prison full of vermin and rats!" dramatically announced the Iron Guardsman. "Yes, my Fascist friends, from vermin and rats...
Having received 3,000 new books for the prison library, the warden of the Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. appointed as "literary censor" Convict Nathan Leopold who, with Richard Loeb, murdered young Bobbie Franks in 1923. Censor Leopold will expurgate "objectionable ideas...