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...prisoners escaped from the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City last week. Two others broke away from the Oklahoma Penitentiary at McAlester, were soon caught. And the jailbreak of the year occurred at Lansing, Kans...
...Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There was a chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners...
...hope that last week's acquittal might provide cause for an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on the assumption that Mooney is now deprived of his liberty without due process of law. Sticking out his hands for his handcuffs, Tom Mooney went back to San Quentin Prison to wait some more...
...tried in 1922 on the specific charge of misappropriating ?5,000. Prosecution brought out that not only were many prizewinners Bottomley friends, but of the ?493,000 handled in the loan lotteries only ?23,000 could be accounted for. Horatio Bottomley was sentenced to seven years in prison. John Bull passed into other hands...
...assault on and near-lynching of Judge Charles Clark Bradley by a mob of Iowa farmers because he would not waive mortgage foreclosure actions pending in his court (TIME, May 8 et seq.) : prison sentences (varying from six months to 20 days) for three of the six mobsters apprehended; suspended sentences for the other three; at Le Mars...