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...obscure nurse named Madeleine Poirier slaved for years to get Life Convict Ullmo pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
...seemed that he was the centre of the nation's interest. Yet in the newspapers of that day and the next the President and his speech were unceremoniously jostled to one side on the front page by dispatches from a small New Jersey town where a German ex-convict was on trial for the murder of the son of a popular aviator...
Last week in the little old court house at Flemington, N. J., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the same row, four places away from Bruno Richard Hauptmann when that stolid German ex-convict went on trial for killing the flyer's first-born son and namesake. At the conclusion of the first week of a life & death contest it could not be said that honors between prosecution and defense were even, for the prosecution had produced a half-dozen damaging surprises and the defense had not had its innings. But in the matter of the four women...
...when he gets on the stand. Last fortnight he made a mysterious motor trip to West Palm Beach on business "connected with the case." He did the case no good when he told reporters there: "No one saw Hauptmann kill the baby. I don't think they can convict him." The doctor thought, however, that Hauptmann might be proven guilty of extortion...
Having received 3,000 new books for the prison library, the warden of the Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. appointed as "literary censor" Convict Nathan Leopold who, with Richard Loeb, murdered young Bobbie Franks in 1923. Censor Leopold will expurgate "objectionable ideas...