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...questioning, which lasted a majority of the 48 hours, I was told that I was 'chestny chelovyek'-an honest fellow-and that I was to be released. . . . The commandant of the prison actually carried my bag downstairs...
...Although I was under prison regime the conditions seemed to me better than those I witnessed once on a visit to Dartmoor. The cell to which I was taken . . . was really a moderately sized room, with table and bed but no chair...
...almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...
Bernard C. McGuire. associate of Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to violating interstate lottery laws in conducting a Loyal Order of Moose lottery in 1930. He was sentenced to a year in prison. Senior Davis' retrial on similar charges was scheduled to take place this week...
Pleading guilty to four assault charges, Zangara was sentenced to 80 years in prison by Judge E. C. Collins. "Don't be stingy, give me 100 years!" he shouted...