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...Votes (1908) both for and against bills providing prison sentences for racetrack gamblers. Votes (1910) against two bills tightening the gambling laws...
Case 2. A convict named Kalinowski had stabbed and killed the headkeeper of Auburn Prison. Convict Kalinowski was sentenced to death. Defense counsel was arguing for clemency...
Wraith of a dreadful era, Gaston Bullock Means got out of prison last week. Citizens had to tax memory heavily to recall precisely which one he was of the many crooks in the Harding administration...
Justice wondered where to turn last week in South Carolina. At the suggestion of Governor Richards, the solicitor of Florence County re-examined Mrs. Maude Collins, about 60, a white trash woman whose testimony sent Ben Bess, a prosperous Negro farmer, to prison in 1915. Mrs. Collins had signed an affidavit this Spring confessing that she testified falsely to jail Ben Bess. On the strength of this affidavit, Governor Richards had pardoned Ben Bess in May. The re-examination of Mrs. Collins was to find if she had committed perjury (TIME, June...
...allow Major Putnam to vote, because he owns property and pays taxes there, that in no way invalidates his U. S. vote. 3) Major Putnam's first vote, at the age of 20, was cast for President Lincoln's reelection, but as Major Putnam was in Libby Prison at the time, his vote was not counted anyway...