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Last week, Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr., son of the late Hugo Stinnes, posted bail of that amount for release from a Berlin prison...
...opportunity for those unaccountable persons who invariably appear in such cases will soon come to plead for their speedy release. Hinton Clabaugh, Chairman of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, has discovered evidence of the fact that the young men are already profiting by their position to enjoy prison life in the greatest comfort. One may wonder at the prosecuting attorney who was so active in their prosecution making such a careless mistake; one may hazard a guess as to the action six years from now of the Parole Board that promised not to release them; and the only...
...latter begged a suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home Economics after leaving, office and until exposed. She went to prison in a trim navy-blue dress and tan felt hat, matronly, greyhaired, self-possessed, "disgraced," "ruined...
...native by hitting him on the head with a bottle full of pebbles. When he has gone away, the woman does this to her husband and to explain his death she tells the story of "two big, dark-looking men." In court she confesses her crime and in prison is killed for having committed...
...incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison blouse and showed reporters a cross branded on her breast, said: "In suffering there is redemption. I've been happy all the time I've been in jail-would give drop by drop my blood, if I could end this conflict...