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Fortnight ago, Texas's Governor Dan Moody regretfully told a London newsman, interviewing him over the trans-Atlantic telephone, how mobbers at Sherman had killed Convict George Hughes, 41, Negro, how they had dragged his body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter...
...Ohio's onetime Senator Atlee Pomerene, was special Government counsel to prosecute the Oil Scandals. Appointed by President Coolidge in 1924, confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 68-to-8, he succeeded in voiding the Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases as fraudulent, convicted Albert Bacon Fall of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward Laurence Doheny. Important witnesses became fugitives in Europe. He failed to convict Doheny or Harry Ford Sinclair of conspiracy, though he did send Sinclair to jail for contempt of court. He was a harddriving, hard-working prosecutor...
...home of Charles Marsh. Jonas Grant said that he had committed arson in order to awaken the victims of his robbery, so they would be sure to send him to jail. He explained that he had been unable to make the Redwood Creek baseball team, that an ex-convict had told him the San Quentin prison team was one of the best in the state...
...Fruit Liner Pastores docked in Manhattan one day last week, ship newsmen singled out one passenger to ask one question. The passenger was Pennsylvania's Governor John S. Fisher. The question: Would he sign a certain official paper which would release from his State's Eastern Penitentiary a certain convict? Governor Fisher told them: "I'll sign it in the routine way when I get around to it." He went on to Harrisburg, unmindful of the crescendo of public interest in the release by the State of Pennsylvania of its most famed prisoner, the No. 1 underworking...
Last week the penitentiary gates opened and convict No. 23,118 changed back to Frederick Albert Cook. Attorney General Mitchell had approved his parole. Its prime provision: Cook must hereafter write and speak nothing but the truth. The first $12,000 he makes, the U.S. will take as the fine he still owes for his oil fraud...