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Mayor Kline faces the penalty of a year in prison, $500 fine and removal from office. Both defendants asked retrial...
...minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet...
Other animals have other miseries: Hella, the lioness, whose second prison-born, litter is taken from her when the cubs reach circus age; Mino, the little red fox, who periodically runs, chasing insanity, in narrowing circles around his cement cage. But there are human sufferers as well. A young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little...
...Though the jury recommended leniency, the judge was, under the law, compelled to impose the maximum sentence, leaving the minimum to be fixed by the Territorial Prison Board...
...hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin to close. First there are accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above...