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...Devonshire there stands the grey walls of the most hated building in England. Sprawled along a bleak headland Dartmoor rises out of the wildest and most desolate stretch of land in all the British Isles. The original buildings were erected in 1809 to confine the French prisoners from the Emperor's army. Later some of the Americans in the war of 1812 found there way to its barren courtyard. At that time Dartmoor established a reputation for cruelty and discomfort which is now almost legendary in its fame. In 1850 the building assumed its present status of a convict prison...
...Alton, high & dry on the mudflats of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, was the prison home all last week of a nervous and overwrought woman and three calm and comforting men, all held for murder. The prisoners: Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, middle-aged Washington socialite; Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., her young son-in-law, and E. J. Lord and Albert Orrin Jones, naval enlisted men. The charge: they had kidnapped and murdered a Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai, accused, with four others of mixed blood, of raping young Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, Jan. 18). Arrested fortnight...
...York, N. Y., Jan 19--A book dealer, owning a shop on Fourth Avenue, and recently arrested in a police drive against a ring which stole rare books, estimated at a value of $40,000, from the Harvard College Library, was sentenced today to serve a prison term of not more than three years...
...thief, Benjamin Barris, pleaded guilty on December 21 to grand larcency, covering five indictments. His arrest followed that of H. B. Clarke in Lancaster, Pa., another member of the ring. The latter gave information which led to the arrest of C. J. Romm, another New York bookseller, now in prison...
Meanwhile St. Gandhi squatted quietly in stone-walled Yerovda Jail, spinning 500 yards of yarn a day, sipping goat's milk, walking round & round the prison compound with a retired British private as companion...