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Sympathy for Mutineers. Only act of "My Leader" last week which might be considered vote-getting was to decree two amnesties, general and political, calculated to set free from jails and concentration camps some 100,000 Germans. Under the general amnesty, fines or prison sentences imposed up to the date of President von Hindenburg's death were cancelled: for first offenders where the fine was not more than 1,000 marks, the imprisonment not more than six months; for second offenders where the fine was not more than 500 marks, the imprisonment not more than three months...
...State's prison today reported the escape of one 'honor' prisoner. . . . Joe Rogers got away from the Warren County camp...
...hundred and eight convicts escaped from North Carolina prisons and prison camps last month. Each day into the office of the Durham Herald-Sun ticked A. P. dispatches from Raleigh naming the runaways, giving details. For 24 July days Telegraph Editor John R. Barry bit his pencil for a new headline to put over such repetitious news. By the 25th he gave up and subheaded "TODAY'S ESCAPES" over the Raleigh dispatch. By last week "TODAY'S ESCAPES" had become one of the most familiar standing heads in the Herald-Sim. Under it last week was chronicled...
...lump lay beneath the scar of an incision made by a Manhattan doctor at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled six years ago. To stitch up a hernia which Warden Lawes had incurred two years before while wrestling at New Orleans with Chaplain Robert Booth of Clinton Prison, the doctor had cleverly taken a strip of muscle from the patient's leg. The rupture incision healed quickly. The leg wound, on the contrary, took three months to close and ever since had given Warden Lawes trouble. Surgeon Sweet recently diagnosed the growth as a tumor which...
From North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh, Luke Lea Jr., son of Convict No. 29,409, was paroled after serving eleven weeks of a two-to-six-year sentence for bank fraud...