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...early 1800's a man could be hanged for stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing...
Ralegh went back to England to take his medicine which James was ready to give. The Spanish ambassador was howling for Ralegh's blood, insisted on James's handing the culprit over that he might be publicly hanged in Spain. James would have done that, too, if public opinion had let him. Instead he put Ralegh through the farce of another trial, and when Ralegh's brilliant self-defense made the prosecution look silly, had him condemned on the old charge of treason-from which he had been reprieved but never technically pardoned...
Last week a book was returned to Widener ten years overdue. The "culprit" was Robert P. Blake, director of the University Library, (of which Widener is a unit.) Because of a clerical error it was not charged to him when he took...
...Addames House News Shoppe" directors ran into difficulties yesterday when petty penny-pinchers became so active that the sale of morning papers had to be stopped until the thief should be apprehended; the culprit is threatened with discipline if caught. The management regrets the brutal frankness of the action, but claim they are riled by the subtility of "the one who gets up so early in the morning...
...school had the following objectives: good character, good manners, good English. Mathematics and Science might be and were weak but sloppy consciences, courtesies and uncivilized speaking, reading or writing were promptly disciplined or the culprit was dismissed...