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Graduation Exercise. In Grand Rapids, Marjorie Baker, 13, married a 23-year-old ex-convict, explained why: "I just couldn't stand the thought of going through seventh grade again...
Hanratty had other troubles. He was jailed by Mounties on charges of forcible entry and obstructing the police, then was released without bail. He was confident that no Ottawa jury would convict him for finding houses for vets. Cried he: "The Government will find it has a tiger by the tail." Nevertheless, the week's events had cooled him. Evicted from his own home last week, he settled with his wife and two-months-old son in a Lansdowne hut. But he called Mayor Stanley Lewis first, got an O.K. before he moved...
...Also among Garsson's friends: an ex-convict named Benjamin Franklin Fields, who had blossomed prosperously as a Washington public relations man. Fields was accused by Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, a Mead Committee member as having offered him $5,000 (as a campaign contribution) to soft-pedal the Garsson case...
...deputy sheriff opened the jail door, and told Roger that Mister Loy Harrison was there to fetch him. Roger's sister-in-law and her husband George Dorsey, just discharged after service overseas with the Army, both worked on Harrison's farm. At their urging ex-convict (bootlegging) Harrison had put up $600 bail to free Roger; the Dorseys and Roger's wife Dorothy were all waiting outside in the car. Mister Harrison would take care of everything...
There was almost no substantiation of Kennedy's accusations. But there was none either, for Nikolai Redin's denials in his halting, faulty English. Yet the American judge had warned the jury it must find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before it could convict Redin...