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...truant officer busily seizes the occasion for renewed efforts to send Star to an asylum. Captain Nazro cleverly remembers that when Star was washed ashore a photograph album was rescued also, containing portraits of her kin. He writes to them. They appear. Kindly folk, they take Star to live with them in Boston. When she pines for Captain January, they charter a small yacht on which he is captain, Nazro first mate and the tap-dancing villager, the crew...
...Jersey's Court of Pardons mysteriously received copies of a 25-page "confession" to the Lindbergh kidnapping signed by one Paul H. Wendel, a 50-year-old Trenton lawyer who was disbarred in 1920 after conviction of perjury, later voluntarily spent three weeks under observation in an insane asylum, was charged in 1931 with embezzlement and fraud but escaped trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives at New Lisbon, N. J., had him ordered turned over to Mercer County (Trenton) authorities...
...stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being followed by pixies), but Jean Arthur breaks up the proceedings at the last moment with love and kisses and saves him from the confines of the sanatorium. Altogether...
Died. Charles Ben Dalton. 83, law-abiding brother of the three notorious Dalton Boys, oldtime Western desperadoes whose exploits filled many a dime novel; in an insane asylum in Supply, Okla. Still living in Hollywood is Brother Emmett, who in 1892 participated in the Daltons' ill-fated Coffeyville, Kans. raid in which Brothers Bob and Grat were killed...
...very hard," continued the Registrar, as he changed to the subject which is causing his department the most trouble today, "to judge when a driver is intoxicated. The famous definition of Judge Dewey, who later landed in an insane asylum, which stated that he is drunk who falls to the floor and cannot rise to drink some more' is adhered to by some of our magistrates, while others swing the opposite way and rule a driver intoxicated if he had had a single drink...