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The stranger who dropped in on a Buchman soul-washing session might fancy that he had somehow gotten into the Sultan's palace on one of the Thousand and One Nights. But if the harsh outsider should remark that public confession of major and minor sins is called by the...
Before affixing his neat signature to this confession. Dr. Kelly added a rubric: Palmam qui meruit jerat. ("Let him bear the palm who has deserved it.")
"I visited my father that day," his literally translated confession began. "He told me of dance and asked me get my wife Elizabeth. On way I bought 50? worth beer and drank a few times. Got Elizabeth. We both had horses. Reached my father's wickiup. Robert Gatewood [his...
With a written confession to the crime already in the Government's hands, substantiated almost completely in person last week by the 21-year-old prisoner, counsel for the defense concentrated on a self-defense plea to save his client from the looming gallows. "I propose to prove," he...
Most notable news exploit of the Times occurred recently in the parole of one Jesse Lucas who had been in prison 23 years for murder. Sharp-eyed Editor Richard James Finnegan read a small item in the Tribune telling of the deathbed confession of the murder by another man. He...