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...diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with a gangster who pays attention to Miss Sidney, gets rid of his old girl by sending her to jail, vengefully shoots a detective because Miss Sidney marries someone else. She and her husband (Gene Raymond) are convicted of the shooting on circumstantial evidence. The gangster's old girl meets Miss Sidney in jail and tries to help her save her husband from the gallows. Ladies of the Big House was written by Ernest Booth, a Folsom convict serving a life term. It is well acted, well directed...
...ship. An early offerer of his good offices was Mayor Walker's German-American friend, David Maier, who used to be a brothel-keeper until he was sent to Sing Sing for trying to tamper with a witness in a legislative investigation (TiME, Sept. 14). Ex-Convict Maier procured $500 from N. G. L. to give to a sheriff who was politically influential among the city's transplanted Teutons. Then Maier said he needed another $2,500 to swing the Lloyd's pier lease. The Bremen and the Europa were abuilding. The line, "desperate...
Captured three days later was 64-year-old Convict Earl Thayer, mail robber. He had escaped alone during the confusion...
...inhabitants was more than one step removed from the Siberian salt-mines. The Yellow Ticket, an estimable antiquity, full of perils for Elissa Landi, shows what might have happened in old Russia when a young girl took it into her head to pay a visit to her convict father...
...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...