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...days later, Governor Langer went to Fargo to be sentenced by Judge Miller. The Law had not changed its mind. William Langer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, $10,000 fine. Taking the sentence with a smile, he planned to file an appeal...
...stamping out which followed scores of Storm Troop leaders, brownshirt potentates whose word has been law in their bailiwicks, were either shot by firing squads or were left alone in prison with a revolver which they used to commit suicide. The chancellor tried his hardest to make Col. Roehm shoot himself, twice sent him a pistol which came back with the defy, "If I am shot Hitler will have to do it himself...
...renomination to succeed him self, her plea was "Persecution!" Last week's verdict followed nearly 60 hours of deliberation by a jury of six businessmen, six farmers. Found guilty with Governor Langer were four political associates, including the State highway commissioner. Maximum sentence: two years in prison, $10,000 fine. While the Governor planned his appeal, Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson claimed the Governorship on the grounds that the fraud conviction made Governor Langer automatically ineligible for office...
...could stand guard while a man was being murdered!" Convicted of standing outside Frau Salm's boarding house, Herr Stoll was sentenced to seven and a half years at hard labor. The State's star witness was a certain Herr Jembrowski who was let out of prison long enough to tattle on Ziegler and Epstein and to declare: "Horst Wessel was murdered by the command of Communist party leaders." On the strength of this testimony Epstein and Ziegler were sentenced to decapitation. No effort was made to hush up the fact that Hero Horst Wessel, far from disliking...
...Fort Worth, Tex., one W. D. May, mail robber and murderer, marched out of his death cell. Beside him, Rev. Aimer Kelly intoned Biblical texts. At the prison washhouse, the procession stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...