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Take the case of Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck. Some two months ago, she visited with her friends Governor and Mrs. Victor A. Donahey of Ohio. The Governor, noted for his interest in prison reform, wished to find out about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers...
Startling discoveries of Communist activities were made by the Paris police. In a campaign which sent 120 men to prison, the police entered the house of Deputy Doriot, Communist leader, seized important documents relative to Morocco, including an offensive plan against the French for the Riffian Army and a considerable amount of correspondence from French officers on the Moroccan front, much of which had apparently been stolen. Proceedings against Deputy Marty, another Communist, were pending, for an article which he contributed to L'Humanité, Communist newspaper, in which he incited French troops to disobedience...
...Sporting Chance. Imagine Kentucky and a man with a horse trying to win a race for the heart of the girl who has to save her father from prison by marrying. Kentucky is of course a lovely place...
...then advanced to the power plant, well-nigh destroyed it. Police forces of the neighboring towns arrived, but could do nothing. Many policemen were caught, locked up in the local prison. Their lives were spared only by the supplications of three clergymen. Mob rule set in. Stores were plundered. Thousands of dollars of damage was done...
...shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz, unrepentant, felt 1,700 volts of electricity pass through his body at Auburn prison...