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Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...
...Burr case, the Government attorneys argued that the Fifth Amendment could be properly invoked only when the answer to a question would, by itself, be enough to convict the witness of a crime. Said Marshall...
...ministers chosen to carry out the first formal trial for heresy ever held in the 60-year history of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America, largest (membership: 2,061,004) group of Lutheran synods in the U.S. The charge: "Holding, teaching and preaching doctrines in convict with the Lutheran faith...
...Convict Jose Simao, serving a 15-year sentence for murder and robbery, sized up his new cell mate as an ideal companion. Like José, white-haired Abdias Scares da Silva was a habitual criminal with a long police record and a vast fund of anecdotes about his scrapes with the law. Besides, both men came from the same Pernambuco home town. In no time at all murderer and thief were swapping yarns, telling jokes, helping each other pass the dreary days in the Pernambuco state...
Point of Honor. In Troy, Ohio, cooperative Convict John Weaver, 33, readily admitted being a member of a gang that had pulled twelve burglaries and three arson jobs, explained soberly: "I've been treated so right I want to tell what I know...