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...Last Mile (World Wide) is a querulous picture of life in the deathhouse. John Wexley's play, based on a deathhouse convict's actual diary and news reports of several prison breaks, was angrily realistic. The cinema has omitted the anger and realism, added hope rays and a new plot...
...Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said, would be sent back on the road as "a Capone attraction" with Col. Miller as manager. . . . In Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Convict Capone has organized his own baseball team, is captain and first baseman...
...them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed near Panama's Chagres River. He has hired a convict to take him to the spot where the last one was slain...
...Also tender-hearted though of stern appearance, Norway's King Haakon was much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto...
...trial to raise funds for King Edward's Hospital Fund, Lord Riddell, newspaper proprietor, in a white top hat, with a bottle of port at his elbow, sat in judgment upon Actresses Gladys Cooper, Viola Tree, Lilian Braithwaite and Elizabeth Pollock, whom Author John Drinkwater, as prosecutor, sought to convict of "practicing undue domesticity and so neglecting their...