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Governor Hunt is known as a great humanitarian. As governor he has never signed the death warrant of any fellow human being. He transformed the State prison from a place of horror into a university, had the prisoners examined medically and treated in line with modern scientific knowledge. He developed a splendid system of roads throughout the State. He made the big corporations obey the safety laws in the mines and reduced mine accidents to a negligible quantity. He has been absolutely fair to labor. He has been constructive and forward-looking...
...late Mr. Phillips, he said, was the true rogue. He had made more than $3,000,000 in graft. "I hope that to God he has made a satisfactory reckoning." screamed Lawyer Steuer. The corpulent Mr. Connolly was pictured as the victim of persecution. But shades of the prison house still gathered about the ex-Borough President...
Engineer Frederick Seely, aide-de-camp of Mr. Connolly, was also convicted of misdemeanor. His sentence was suspended. Mr. Connolly had hardly spent two days in welfare island prison when Lawyer Steuer obtained a certificate of reasonable doubt on the conviction. Mr. Connolly was released on $5,000 bail. Glum experts figured that unless the grafters could be forced to surrender some $10,000,000, the sewer conspiracy would cost every man, woman & child in Greater New York...
...authoritative Paris Journal des Debats, which almost invariably reflects the attitude of the French Government, said: "Horan and Hearst, if they again come to Paris, ought to be arrested, condemned and put in prison. . . . M. Hearst placed at the disposition of his collaborator a sum which in the country of dollars perhaps seems small, but which in the land of paper francs means something. One talks of $5,000 or $10,000. Hearst and Horan committed a low and fraudulent action against international public order. We like to believe that they will be judged as they deserve by their...
Unobtrusively, Junior Stinnes left the prison, went to Berlin's smartest Esplanade Hotel (owned by the Hugo Stinnes Corp.), journeyed thence to his home at Mulheim in the Ruhr valley. His trial for attempt to defraud the German Government (TIME, Sept. 24) will probably not take place until next year...