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...Suffern, N. Y., Clara McKeath-on, 21, was sentenced to eight years in Auburn Prison for shooting and killing Lawrence Hawkshaw, 15, her opponent in a crap game...
...chicken, ice cream. Among the diners, besides Bishop Manning and several judges, were "The Millionaire Kid," "Sam the Scratcher," "Hotel Bill," "Little Gyp" and their friends. They are members of the Marshall Stillman Movement-all of them bad men and bad women who, in spite of having gone to prison, have decided to go straight. They presented the Bishop with $100, every dime of which had been collected from people whose Vater-land had once been the Underworld...
...name, address and office, if any, of the donor; further that all campaign deficits be published and monthly lists of those who contributed to make up such deficits be given after each election. As penalty for failure in these duties he attached a $5,000 fine, one year in prison, or both. This proposition was such that none of the unco-good Senators could oppose it. Senator Robinson, Democratic Floor Leader, assisted in framing it. Senator Edge, sponsor of the bill, thought the publicity clause had no place in a postal salary measure. So he refrained from voting...
...everyone had to stop to draw breath. Officials began to call the roll. Everyone waited for the L's and the T's with breath bated and hearts palpitating. The Communists yowled whenever a Communist failed to answer his name, which usually meant that he was in prison; when the name of Prince von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, was called, they replied with: "Woe unto you who are his grandson!" Then came the L's and with them "Ludy's" name. The Communists shouted so loud that they almost frightened themselves-a Herculean effort...
...short time ago an incident occurred which irromediably shattered. Sir Henry's inherlted confidence in the fundamental goodness of his follow men, and seriously distifibed his belief in the applicability of his father's theories. A criminal was brought up for sentence, and instead of committing him forthwith to prison, the son of Charles Dickens found him a job and placed him on parole. Three months later the man was again in the dock. Sir Henry was disconsolate...