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Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...
Last week's Mooney-Billings developments: the justices of the California Supreme Court convened in Folsom Prison to re-examine Convict Billings...
...portly old man of 65, blind, living outside Paris at Sannois. His sympathizers believe him to be a descendant of one Karl Wilhelm Naundorff who appeared in Berlin in 1810 announcing that he was the Dauphin. Herr Naundorff explained that he had not died in a Paris prison 15 years before as the world believed, but had escaped in the bottom of a laundry basket...
Erection of a new penitentiary is the first step in President Hoover's prison-reform program, supported by Congress (TIME, July 14). Next structural step: site-selection and construction of a reformatory for men "west of the Mississippi River...
Will James has had his zeniths and his nadirs. When still a youngster he helped steal cattle on the quiet and once served a penitentiary sentence therefor. A shooting scrape once put him into a log prison of the Northwest Mounted Police. Once he was in the movies. That, says he, was a tough job. Many were the falls he took, some by order, some not; many the uncomfortable costumes (the worst a suit of armor) in which he fell. During the War he never got overseas, but he had a lot of fun on a horse, after his superior...