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...William Kirby Robinson, aged 31, robbed an Arkansas post orifice, was sentenced to four years in Leavenworth Penitentiary ("Bankers' Institute"). On his way to prison he picked his handcuffs loose, plunged from a moving train at Coffeyville, Kan., made his escape to California. There he married, served as a deputy sheriff, grew well-to-do running a store and tourist camp at Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told...
...sordid resort. Lyda and Don are carrying on a puny little affair, are attracted to Eve and Honey because, although they may not be good citizens, they appear to love each other very dearly ?so dearly, in fact, that when the law closes upon them, Honey kills a prison guard to get to Eve. Eve breaks out of a detention home to get to Honey. Lyda becomes embroiled in the escape, hears the police coming, watches Eve and Honey impale themselves on an iron fence five floors below, remains to face the news-photographers and notoriety, but is spared...
Sentenced. Daniel J. O'Connell, 47, bankrupt investment banker; to five-to-ten years in Sing Sing Prison at hard labor; for having swindled Catholic priests and laymen of over $2,000,000 (TIME...
...plot is worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank...
HERBERT B. FREDERICK County Solicitor, Criminal Court of Record Daytona Beach, Fla. Upon Captain George Washington Courson, prison guard found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Prisoner Maillefert, Florida Justice (Judge George Cooper Gibbs) imposed a sentence of 20 years in prison (the maximum).-ED. Appeal to a Husband (Making exception for an extraordinary case. TIME prints the subjoined letters without names, address or obligation. If enough readers desire such service, TIME will establish a special lineage rate for "personal"' advertisements, to be printed in a fixed position in the magazine each week.-ED.) Sirs...