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Astonished by the smitch of dust from their own files, Prosecutor Courtney's lawyers wired Hollywood police to snatch Convict Bioff from his Hollywoodland palace on Santa Monica Boulevard, head him back toward prison. Cried Willie Bioff, now rich and 46: "I made mistakes as a boy. I had to come up the hard way. . . . Pegler . . . goes back 18 years for dirt to smear me with, is running interference for his plutocratic friends in Hollywood who are attacking me because I am fighting for the little fellows in the picture studios...
...Hubert's new friend was Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, ex-convict, ex-explorer, only living man who ever claimed that he led a party to the North Pole on foot...
...story is enough to make a mystery fan throw up his hands in abject despair. It concerns a psychic convict fresh from taking the tap for a rich, buccaueering and, of all things, the rich man's murder. There's a nifty bit of Rube Goldbergiana concerning the firing of a pistol, but otherwise the film ends with very little clarification of anything save the fact that Nick Charles leads a very merry married life. However, the conversation sparkles at frequent intervals and Myrna Loy wears a negligee now and then for a man's money this is enough...
...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, now Convict No. 34,234 in Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, still has considerable time to serve. He got life for the murder, 45 to 90 years for the kidnapping. The judge said the sentences were to run concurrently. If he keeps out of trouble, and if, somehow, the life sentence should be commuted, Louis Whitsitt might be let out by 1950, or anyway...
Prison-pallid Dr. James Monroe Smith, convicted ex-president of Louisiana State University, hunched up in a jail bathtub at Baton Rouge, La., tried to commit bloody suicide by slashing his right foot. (It was his second attempt: last July, in the Federal House of Detention at New Orleans, he tried to have bichloride of mercury smuggled to him in an ice cream carton.) Two days later an ambulance carried off ineffectual Convict Smith to Angola State Penitentiary, to begin serving eight to 24 years for forgery...