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Pitch-soaked torches roared high one night last week in the public courtyard of the Central Prison at Angora, A Death-lured crowd, chattering expectantly, hushed as four tripod gallows were erected. Eerie as ghosts in the flickering light, four white-clad condemned men paced silently from their cells...
Foreign Minister Briand of France summoned peremptorily to Paris last week the Turkish Ambassador, Fethy Bey, who was vacationing at Dinard. Irate, M. Briand demanded the instant re lease from prison at Constantinople of the captain of the French steamer Lotus who had been jailed in defiance of international law when the Lotus recently rammed and sank in a heavy fog the Turkish ship Bozkourd. Simultaneously it was announced that M. Emile Daeschner, onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. will be despatched shortly to succeed M. Albert Sarraut as French Ambassador to Turkey. M. Daeschner will be the first...
...were dealing with and possibly you will get a smile out of the affair as well as I. San Quentin happens to be in itself a very small little town but whenever anyone ever refers to San Quentin everyone else knows that they mean the State Prison and we are a little city by ourselves of some 3,500 inhabitants at the present time find growing right along. Personally I came here in 1922 to serve a sentence of 25 years but due to the humanity of one or two of our State Board of Prison Directors, I have been...
Last week, sunbeams crept softly through the penitentiary bars, glistened on tears of joy in the eyes of Mr. Langley, who was composing a telegram to his darling, Spouse Langley. His words flowed like a dream in the Vale of Tempe: "I am supremely happy. Even these grey prison walls seem to shine with the lustre of our beloved Cumberland and Blue Ridge. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. May He bless and keep always the good men and women and all our children of the Kentucky Mountains. My love and greetings...
When she reached home she unfolded the wad, read it. Following her husband's instructions she proceeded to effect his escape from prison last week...