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Miss Wise, before she went to prison, chopped wood, peddled it in the streets. Thus she earned enough to feed her four children. When she found that a fifth was imminent, Miss Wise became desperate, asphyxiated her fourth...
...Horrors." Among Britain's most militant anti-Reds is able Sir Hilton Young. He wants Soviet lumber excluded from Great Britain under the Foreign Prison Made Goods Act of 1897. To prove that Soviet lumber is convict-hewn, Sir Hilton recently submitted to the Prime Minister sworn statements by three Russian refugees that they as "convicts" had been "forced" to cut wood in Russian forests, had witnessed "horrors" (TIME, Sept...
Ponzi from Prison...
...present gruesome epidemic of female poisonings occurred, was the female death penalty revived. Three more murderesses will be hanged, unless reprieved by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. Of the 40 women arrested for poisoning husbands, children and lovers, most received prison sentences or were acquitted...
...Curt Jett, a lanky, pork-eating, whiskey-drinking hothead. He became known as the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." He had never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with...