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Thomas Mott Osborne '84, noted penologist and champion of prison reform, who gained national prominence as reform warden of Sing Sing prison, will lecture again this year at the Phillips Brooks House on November...
Last week he called nitroglycerin to his aid in an attempt to get out. Just as he was about to touch off an ill considered charge which would have blown the jail and himself to atoms, he was shot at by a prison guard, and several other prosiners were wounded before he was killed...
DULCARNON-Henry Milner Rideout - Duffield ($1.50). With devious dithering that confuses yet never quite discourages the attention, a mystery is hitched along from Marseilles to Port Said, to Calcutta, to a native prison in the hills, to a river village, to a maharajah's time-encrusted palace in the jungle. Cryptic scribbling in mouldy volumes of Chaucer lead at last to-certain mislaid belongings of the globe-sacking son of Philip of Macedon. Utterly fantastic and gratuitous mystification, with a U. S. adventurer and a rather attractive French wandering man moving in a maze of blind beggars, green lizards...
...found. He was Cardinal Schulte, Prelate of Cologne, who during the War organized a large relief force to care forthe British and French prisoners in German prison camps. After the Armistice the French Government was at pains to thank him for his ministrations, and almost six years later he was chosen to consecrate on Oct. 4, 1925, the Church of St. Boniface in the East End of London...
Whether Colonel Charles Sweeney and other American fliers in Morocco prefer their present occupation* to immunity from $1,000 fine and three years in prison should soon become apparent...