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Capt. Hermann Koehl is a veteran pilot of the War, shot down twice by the French, taken prisoner the second time only to escape from a prison camp and make a tortuous way back to Germany. He is 40, married but childless, is old for a pilot. "Blind flying," night flying so essential to a transatlantic pilot, is his specialty...
...went to the castle of Chilon by steam and row boat. We saw the gloomey dungeons where the prisoners of yore were kept. We saw Lord Byrons name. The place where the prisoners were kept the night before they were hung. The place where hung. The modern baracks and prisons. We saw the prison where Boulden was kept and the stone worn away by his footsteps...
...concert was one day given at a children's prison. The next day astonished parents who had abandoned all hope of reform received penitent and regretful letters from their wayward offspring who promised rigid goodness for the future. The band was rushed to a grown-up prison, and soon the embittered "lifers" were shedding tears and promising to turn over a new leaf...
...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
...last week, at Kansas City, Mo., Reporter Moses Lamson caught his Robert Malachi Crowe. No doctors had helped, nor any policemen; only a furious Negro friend whose wife Robert Malachi Crowe was blackguardedly courting. Detectives hustled the prisoner to Chicago, where a judge quickly sentenced him to prison. The reporter received a $1,000 bonus and the Tribune the want ad publicity, as the moral approbation, upon which it had calculated...