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...Hotel. At once a crowd closed in behind him, followed his horrified gaze. On a narrow window ledge, 17 floors above the street, stood a young man, precariously teetering. He was 26-year-old John William Warde of Southampton, L. I., who had recently been discharged from an insane asylum and with his sister was visiting friends in Manhattan. At a slight reproof from his sister, Warde had rushed to the window, climbed out on the ledge...
...years as compared to London's 2,000, Paris' 2,050 years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I put heart and soul into making Berlin a fitting capital of Prussia, but not until after the victorious war with France in 1871-when Bismarck founded the Second Reich, had King Wilhelm I proclaimed Emperor...
...will make her the first U. S.-born saint.* Mother Seton founded the Catholic parochial school system and the Sisters of Charity in the U. S. Today, 8,911 nuns of her order, eight colleges, 160 high schools and academies, 447 parochial elementary schools and many a hospital and asylum are her monuments. Last week, Rev. Leonard Feeney, poet and associate editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, argued her claims to sainthood in an eulogistic, lyrical biography.† Cried he: "It will be the signalization in time-for our newspapers (you know our flair for publicity?) will give it their...
...rifles. British emergency regulations, prescribing the gallows for possession of arms, have been applied against Arab terrorists. Last week a British military court showed it could be equally stern with Jewish terrorists. The court condemned two of the young Jews to hang, sent the third to an insane asylum. Sole hope of clemency remained with Major General Robert Hadden Haining, commander of the British Palestine forces, who must confirm the sentences. If confirmed, the two convicts will be the first Jews to be hanged in Palestine since British occupation...
...eyes of the law, insanity may be a temporary mental derangement which renders a person not responsible for his acts. After Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, a Manhattan neurologist, told a jury that Thaw was thus deranged at the time of the shooting, he was acquitted, confined in an asylum. Later a jury found him sane, set him free...