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Last week the prosecutor of Will Sanders announced that he will have the corpse trucked back to York immediately after the execution, exhibited all day on the court house steps. His reason: most Negroes doubt that the electric chair kills, believe that its occupants are secretly whisked away to prison for life...
Police suspected no "higher-ups." Federal officers at once took charge and custody under the statute passed last July, carrying penalties for mailing kidnap threats and ransom demands of $5,000 fine or 20 years in prison or both. The other new sword to avenge Baby Lindbergh is the 1932 Federal law against actual interstate kidnapping, providing "such term of years [in prison] as the court, in its discretion shall determine...
...emaciated, unkempt, aging man who looks more than his 50 years was taken out of prison in Prince Albert, Sask. one night last week, bundled hastily into a railway car. On the eastern edge of Canada, at Halifax, a ship awaited him. He would be put aboard, taken to his native Russia. There, he felt sure, waited Death. He was Peter Verigin II, leader of Western Canada's 17,000 Doukhobors. With him were government officials, to hustle him along, keep his progress quiet. When the train reached Montreal Peter Verigin II was hustled through the station so that...
...exile Peter Verigin II is possible because he came later, is an alien; but an alien convicted of a crime may be deported after serving half his prison term. Last May, on the same day that 118 other Doukhobors were given three-year sentences for parading naked, Peter Verigin II was jailed for perjury. He hoped to be sent to Mexico (whose government would permit 10,000 Doukhobors to settle there) but Canada preferred to return him to the land of his birth. Canadian officials called his death-talk the usual plea of deportable persons, said...
...admired many a Bolshevik bureaucrat and got into hot water with his colleagues and superiors for holding out against intervention. Upon finally giving into those about him, the "Agent" lost the confidence of the Bolsheviks and without gaining anyone else's. When Lenin was shot, Lockhart was held in prison for a month as a spy, but upon the recovery of Lenin no evidence could be found against the emissary. Wishing that he had resigned his post rather than having helped in the intervention, he left Russia forlorn: "My physical body was going forward, but my thoughts were back...