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Last week General Cesare Rossi, thin, prison-pale, and with a scraggly beard was brought to trial. He was allowed no witnesses...
Five trial judges deliberated less than half an hour, then brought in their verdict: Thirty years in prison, of which three years are to be spent in solitary confinement...
Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing, who is also attending the prison congress here, said in an interview today that he is opposed to capital punishment because it does not act as a deterrent but topds rather to make heroes of criminals...
...Raleigh Prison, one John Wilson got an impression of his room's keyhole with chewing-gum, made a key to match out of a buttonhook, walked out at night...
...John Callahan actually scaled the 20-ft. wall of Manhattan's Tombs with tenacious hands and feet. Two keepers conducting one Dr. Theodore Gallaudet to the same bleak prison were magnificently wined-dined by their prisoner en route. In their stupor he left the restaurant on a pretext, went to Havana and Paris where his family joined him, lived happily and immune thereafter...