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...Convict McGovern Miller, abed in Sing Sing prison hospital, woke one murky morning this week to a nightmare sight. Out of their beds leaped three fellow felons, fully clothed and armed with guns. Quick as murder they shot and killed the guard in the hospital ward, vanished through the door. That was the last Convict Miller saw of them...
...doors with keys which they had long since prepared. The tunnel opened on the side of a railroad embankment, down which they slid and ran along the tracks. In Water Street they were spotted by two cops. They fired, killing Patrolman James Fagan. Patrolman William Nelson fired back, drilling Convict James Waters through the heart. The other two, Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, pelted river-wards. On the bank they found a shad fisherman, forced him to row them across the Hudson...
...Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby. At length she is rescued by a reforming young Emperor, who as a prince had met and loved...
...Quentin in 1926, that Valtin's real name is Richard Julius Herman Krebs. He wrote that he left the jail "in the first days of December, 1929." The only man who fitted Valtin's description of himself and who left San Quentin at that time was Convict Krebs. Charges on which he could be deported were his admittedly illegal entrance, his former membership and activity in the Communist Party in Germany...
Expired. In Columbia, La., William Heard got a letter from a Little Rock, Ark. paper saying his subscription would expire March 8. Responding that he was under sentence to hang March 7, Convict Heard concluded: "In view of the fact that I do not know my future address I am afraid our pleasant relations must be severed...