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...hour later, with scores of motor-cycle policemen and deputies as guards, police issued from the court house with the prisoners, fired over the heads of the crowd, scattered tear gas bombs, and in the confusion herded the men into cars, roared away toward Jackson. Six hours and 40 minutes after their confession, Killers Smith, Oliver and Blackstone were in Jackson prison, to remain until taken to Marquette penitentiary for the rest of their natural lives...
Inquisitor Seabury is in the extraordinary position of representing all three branches of State government?judicial, executive, legislative. In the first capacity he has had eight policemen indicted, sent six others to prison, removed two magistrates, sent three scampering off under fire. In his capacity as the Governor's representative to hear malfeasance charges against doddering District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain of New York County, Tammany Sachem, he had not, up to last weekend, reported his conclusions. As the Legislature's agent he was pressing his queries into the political machinery of sprawling Queens Borough, and even into...
...again the next day and nearly eight hours the day after that when their developed films showed views of fortifications. Both Herndon & Pangborn protested they had not recognized a fort if they saw one, but Japanese espionage laws are strict: They could be fined $1,500 or put in prison for three years. Civil officials, believing in the flyers' innocence of intent, were all for. leniency. But the army openly favored a prison term. It appeared that the investigation might go on for many more days...
...sentence of the court is that you be kept in prison in the Second Division for twelve months...
Still wearing his long black coat and his high silk hat, Sir Owen Cosby Philipps Baron Kylsant straightway motored to Wormwood Scrubs, passed through the jail doors. Newshawks had scarcely finished writing of what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...