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...Then I saw them come back-licked. They had tried but their prison records and the cops were too much for them...
...took a two-story stucco building and filled its walls with windows. "Some of us have not seen much sunshine," he said. Then he took in men he had known -a pardoned murderer, an embezzler, a forger-and let them work on at the trade they had learned in prison, rigging ship models, turning radio cabinets, joining chairs...
...occupy a cell in Atlanta Penitentiary as substitute for Indiana's Governor, Warren T. McCray (see CORRUPTION), who had been jailed for mail fraud. Said generous Dr. Osborn: "I have nothing to do, I have no dependents and I am used to more hardships than a prison entails...
More sad, if possible, would have been his looks had he been aware that life, for all princes a prison, is cruel especially to a prince of basset hounds. Had he, last week, been carried from his country kennel to Madison Square Garden, where the 52nd Annual Dog Show of the Westminster Kennel Club was in progress, his sensitive heart must have trembled with the terror that afflicts a small boy when he is taken, for the first time, to school. Unlike poodles or pomeranians, basset hounds are not pleased by admiring stares; they prefer running in the fields...
...chiefly to the dramatic nature of the trial and execution not long ago of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, the question of capital punishment has come up again. Much opinion has been aired, editorially and otherwise, and conclusions have been varied. From lively descriptions of ghostly apparitions in the prison, doctored up with as much sensationalism as possible, to thoughtful attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time...