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...sale of an obscene book to a member of the Watch and Ward Society brought heavy fines and prison terms to James A. DeLacey, manager of the Dunster House bookshop, and Joseph Sullivan, clerk in the shop, which is located on South street. DeLacey was fined $800 and sentenced to four months in the house of correction by Judge Stone of the Cambridge court. Sullivan was fined $200 and sentenced to two weeks in the house of correction...
...gone wrong was she, but Mrs. Albert Bacon Fall, wife of the man whom a Washington jury convicted last month of committing the first felony ever proved on a member of a U. S. President's Cabinet. Shortly after Mr. Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine-the amount of the bribe he took from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny for arranging the Elk Hills oil lease in 1922 while serving as Secretary of the Interior-Mrs. Fall posed and spoke for Fox Movietone News. The film contained "news" which had escaped or been...
...many reasons police wanted sly-faced, little 24-year-old Badman Nannery. A year ago he and his pal Edward ("Snake") Ryan escaped from Sing Sing by clambering through a transom in the prison kitchen, scaling the wall, swimming away down the Hudson river. Ryan was recaptured and returned to Sing Sing. From the underworld came word that Nannery has sworn to get Ryan out again...
...Under the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City, Col, officials last week discovered a ten-foot tunnel dug by convicts since last month's deadly riot (TIME, Oct. 14). In the tunnel were found sledges, drills, crowbars, powder. Alarmed, the officials searched the entire prison, found 300 lbs. of daggers, stilettos, blackjacks, clubs, saws, knives made from files ?all the makings of another violent outburst...
...well capitalized in this picture. She is a fancy lady who has been kicked out of the worst joint in Shanghai but who pretends to be refined when she meets a handsome gentleman on a train. The gentleman (James Murray) is a crook who has escaped from a Chinese prison. He copies Nolan's respectable front. Even dull directing, bad dialog and indifferent recording fail to blot out something touching and terrible in their momentary romance. Best shot: tea for two in a Chinese private dining room...