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...choice and 30,532 second choice for him; and the Digest, in its summary, says: "Attorney-General Palmer has throughout run a close race with Debs, the Socialist candidate, for whose incarceration in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Mr. Palmer's Department of Justice is responsible. Mr. Palmer leads the convict by 19,003 votes to 16,424 in the final tabulation...
...volume of lyrical verse written while the author was imprisoned in His Majesty's Prison, Pentonville, London, N., reproducing the feelings of a convict...
...Gompers was accused of being a city in France or possibly South America; among the Maine senators were named Johnson, Burleigh, Hale, Fernald, Peters, McGillicuddy, Guernsey, and Cobb; Combles was called a town in France, also a place in Roumania; Thomas Mott Osborne was given the titles of ex-convict and novel writer; Bucharest was located on four continents, six countries in Europe and as a city on the mouth of a river in India; Mr. Marshall was named as a United States senator and the greatest justice of the Supreme Court; Mr. Lansing was an ambassador variously to England...
...plot of "We, the People" is based on an actual episode in the real life of a convict. Every effort has been expended to secure realism, both in action and scenery, one of the settings being a replica of the rotunda in the Charlestown Prison...
...persons vainly enamoured should migrate to Scotland with the object of their affections, given themselves out as married to him, and write him a note signed "Your loving wife." That is all that is necessary: the Law of Scotland does the rest; it will convict you of the intent to marry and sentence you forth-with to conjugal bliss. At least, that was where the "Indiscretion of Truth" came in. Truth was a maiden fair to see. She rashly wrote to one man that she would meet him at an inn and be his bride. He sent her an answer...