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...Sand Cave at Cave City, Ky., in February 1925-a haunting, primitive, narrative dirge that begins: Oh, come, all you young people, And listen while I tell Of the fate of Floyd Collins, A lad we all knew well. . . . They sing William Jennings Bryan's Last Fight, The Convict and the Rose, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, Little Mary Thagan -and many another sad story. All the tunes are alike, never departing from the few chords within reach of the unschooled accompanist. Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want...
...universal. At Lawrence, Mass., the typical defendants on trial last week were the mayor himself and his brother, a Chelsea police inspector. These brothers, by name Quigley, Mayor Lawrence F. and Inspector Thomas, were indicted last August with 42 others as belonging to an alleged "ring." An ex-convict testified that he was paid $300 for helping to unload liquors at the Quigley mansion...
North Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...
...Sick Convict...
...McCray of Indiana, brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist), unsuccessful farmer, K. K. K. enthusiast, now lies sick in the Atlanta penitentiary, where he was sent two years ago for using the mails to defraud. In April, big Senator Watson, politically powerful, pleaded before President Coolidge for the convict's release; last week he tried again (bringing along the other Indiana Senator). But the convict's term of ten years, despite the convict's friends, remains unabbreviated...