Word: celles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, through Attorney Robert Moore of Michigan City, Ind., announced David Curtis Stephenson, who recently (TIME, July 18, 25) began throwing verbal and documentary bombs at various Indiana officials from his life-prisoner's cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Mr. Stephenson, irate at getting no help in his attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks...
Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...
...year-old daughter Inez, last week wrote Nicola Sacco, condemned to die during the week of August 10. To the child whom he has seen only on her visits to his cell he said: "It was the greatest treasure and sweetness in my struggling life that I could have lived with you and your brother, Dante, and your mother on a neat little farm and learn all your sincere words and tender affection. The same I have wished and love to see for other poor girls and their brothers happy with the mother and father as I dreamed...
Last week, however, Governor Young issued her an unconditional pardon, said that to put her in a cell was "unthinkable." Governor Young carefully added that the law under which she was convicted was undoubtedly constitutional, but that "abnormal conditions attending the trial" greatly influenced the jury and that "under ordinary circumstances" the case never would have been prosecuted. These latter remarks presumably referred to the fact that in 1919-20 the U. S. nation engaged in a widespread Radical-hunt, and "Bolsheviki" became a common epithet for one small boy to hurl at another...
...longer suspicious, went to Editor Daudet's cell and released him. M. Daudet burst into tears, kissed M. le Directeur Catry, wrung his hand, and rushed out into the street to mount a taxi. Even the taxi driver was a Royalist in disguise...