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...years the vermin-ridden prison on the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, built on the site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally publicized Spy Mata Hari. U. S. inmates have included the Comtesse de Janze, the former Alice Silverthorne of Chicago, for shooting her lover (whom she later married) and Mrs. Ruth Putnam Mason, author and actress, for passing worthless checks...
...prosecution, obviously afraid that the jury would be moved by Dr. Gorgulov's outbursts, at least to the point of judging him insane, concentrated on attempts to picture him as a former Bolshevik terrorist. "He is the Rasputin of the Russian refugees." summed up Chief Prosecutor Donat Guigue. "He is a wild beast...
Dublin did not feel easier; neither did the Royal Black Preceptories who were kept out of Cootehill. In the south Irish Minister of Justice Fitzgerald-Kenney spoke earnestly at Ballyhaunis. In his pocket were details of a number of terrorist crimes by Irish Republicans. Said...
...series of 43 terrorist murders, 15 of the prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment, 109 others received sentences totaling 1500 years.* A ruckus broke out that sent the pigeons fluttering from the courthouse roof, set little Sicilian donkeys braying hilariously in the nearby marketplace. Prisoners spat, screamed, bit their thumbs at the jury, howled maledictions. Resourceful Matteo Balsamo, sentenced for life, tore off his shoes, hurled them with appropriate curses through the bars of his cage at the jury. The jury kept their shoes...
...centuries of punishment that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...