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...amenable to the provisions of Chapter 203 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts which provide in $59 that "Whoever designedly, by a false pretence, or by a privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, obtains property from another person, . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding ten years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the jail not more than two years...
...subject; those of the second hour with ethical and theological topics; while the lectures of the third hour will treat mainly of practical suggestions for social amelioration and reform." Excursions will be conducted during the session to the municipal and voluntary charitable institutions of Boston and to the Reformatory Prison at Concord...
...Read served in the United States Navy through the whole Civil War. He was on the iron clad Keokuk when it was riddled and sunk by the fire of Fort Sumter in 1863. After taking part in several other engagements be was made a prisoner of war and confined for eight months in a prison stockade. Of the hundred and eleven men captured with him, but thirty survived the imprisonment...
...exiles leave for Boston. Before long, the pirate is discovered in the prison and is taken for Hazelle, Cavendishe insisting that she has "changed her form." The pirate is thereupon sent to Boston for trial...
...sentences. "In at the Death," by J. P. Sanborn, Jr., '00, seems hardly plausible in the telling, and not especially enter taining. "Told from a Diary," by W. H. Mearns '02, begins well, but finishes leaving the reader decidedly in the air. The poetry consists of two pieces, "The Prison of St. Quentin," by B. Bassett and a translation of a poem of Henri de Regnier by H. B. Stanton '00. Both poems are careful work, though not especially noteworthy. The book reviews are timely, but the writers are almost too lavish in their praise of the work reviewed...