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...trial is historic. Caillaux contended that the papers seized were merely evidence of his intimate dreams, defended himself with great skill and eloquence. He was, however, sentenced to three years in prison, banished from Paris for five years, had his civic rights suspended for ten years...
...reputed to be Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean come to life. Having escaped from Cayenne, French penal settlement in Guiana, in 1904, returned to France under an assumed name, made a modest fortune, become well-known and respected in Metz, he was found out and sent to prison. Fifty prominent people of Metz petitioned the Minister of Justice in Paris for Jean Hateau's release, stating that they wanted him back as a free...
Tried in the state which he has represented in Congress for 17 years, John Wesley Langley, Congressman from Kentucky, was convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws and sentenced to two years in prison. The first public intimation that he was involved in such a case came when a Grand Jury in Chicago, in returning indictments for alleged Veterans' Bureau frauds, mentioned, as a sort of aside, that the cases of two Congressmen ought to be looked into (TIME March 10, 17). Mr. Langley and four others were indicted for a supposed conspiracy formed in 1921 to remove...
...only have few of the bucket-shop cases of two years ago resulted in prison sentences, but many of the cases have not yet even come up for trial. In cases where convictions have been secured, usually the jail sentences have run less than three years...
...imprisonment and dismissal from his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. To quote however, Prof. Ralph Barton Perry-"He is respected by oppoments and followers alike as possessing one of the genuinely distinguished and brilliant philosophic minds of the day"-and immediately after the war he was released from prison and reinstated in his fellowship. Again speaking of Russell's nature. Wesley C. Mitchell points out, Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature...