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District Attorney Foley believed that he had ample evidence to convict Bruno Hauptmann on the New York indictment of extortion. Handwriting experts positively identified the ransom notes to "Jafsie" Condon as Hauptmann's work. In Hauptmann's garage $13,750 of the ransom money had been found. In Hauptmann's home was discovered notepaper identical with that used in the ransom notes. A loose board taken from a closet in Hauptmann's apartment was found to have "Jafsie" Condon's street address and telephone number scribbled on it. And burrowing into the garage walls, detectives...
...Administration passes a law making it possible to convict a man for selling a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread combined for the dictated price of the milk alone...
Excerpts: "Most of us know what damage the lack of a normal sex life does to either a man or a woman. What it does in the prisons isn't often brought up in polite conversation, but most people know, just the same. . . . New convicts coming into the prisons are promptly approached by veterans in these vices, and initiated into them if they will consent. . . . What this does to the penologists' attempts to make over men into normal citizens, it is easy to imagine. And what must it do to many a convict's wife...
Died. Mrs. Mary Mooney, 85, mother of convict Tom Mooney; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
Divorced. Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite, "only ex-convict in Congress"; by Mrs. Lydia Schneider Shoemaker; in Stevens Point, Wis. Charges: cruelty, infidelity...