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...fairness, the writing in Ted Lewis' article on the Malmedy trials is far more successful than previous attempts at the topical article have been. It deals with the efforts of military prosecutors to convict the officers and men of a German regiment for the murder of American prisoners of war during the Battle of the Bulge, and is a straightforward account of brutal tactics used by the prosecution, based on facts which the editors say were uncovered but not printed by a large metropolitan daily. As a piece of reporting, the Malmedy article is a fine...
...jail atop Berkeley's two-story, grey stucco Hall of Justice the old crook, with the air of a man whose lifework was done, was garrulous about his career. Back in 1920, arrested for stealing a car, he learned safecracking from a fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There...
Turncoat. In Snow Hill, N.C., Virginia police who had searched more than two years for Escaped Convict Tommy Hill finally found him working as a guard at a North Carolina state prison camp...
Ponzi's biggest one-day take had topped $2,000,000 when the Boston Post finally exposed him for what he was : an ex-convict and a confidence man who had borrowed from 40,000 Peters to pay early-bird Pauls. This time the mob that stormed Ponzi's office shouted: "Kill...
...night of Nov.11, 1932, ex-Convict Roy Frank Godbey and four pals pulled off a robbery in Ringling, Okla., and bungled it. They got only $9. A few days later Hoodlum Godbey was captured. Prosecutor Earl Pruet, a vigorous and sarcastic lawyer, pointed out to the court that Godbey was a fifth offender, and demanded a stiff sentence for him. Godbey got 35 years, and swore to Pruet: "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I ever...