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...tell you I was a robber-not a rapist," the 23-year-old culprit shouted. "I haven't got justice." He looked down on his trembling old father, whom someone was holding up, and on his red-eyed sister, who had spent three days trying to get Governor Laffoon to pardon her brother. "I don't see that woman around here. Where is she at? Is Mrs. Johnson in the crowd?" Nine times De Boe called for Mrs. Johnson, the Iuka merchant's wife he was convicted of attacking when he robbed her husband's store...
...brought to bay, things were beginning to quiet down in Athens. Yet at high noon, yesterday, the men were aroused from their customary places in the cafes by a penetrating shriek, "Long live Venizelos, and the revolution." Fearing a new uprising, they rushed out en masse to locate the culprit, only to find that the object of their anxiety was no more than a trained parrot. Rebel sympathizers now fear for the life of the parrot...
Since the Soviet Union seems to be the chief culprit,and since Paris is now flirting with an alliance with Moscow, the prosecution proceeded half-heartedly and Judge Revol seemed content to let his spy trial become a baby show, with beaming French policemen stumbling about with bottles, diapers, rattles and wraps, chortling: "Ah, le petit! Now he sucks his thumb...
Committee & Culprit. After the Chicago riots a commission was appointed to see what could be done about improving the Negroes' lot. Following suit, Mayor LaGuardia last week appointed a similar committee composed of prominent Negroes like Poet Countee Cullen and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, such professional white committeemen as Trustee William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee Institute, Lawyers Morris Ernst and Arthur Garfield Hays...
...week ended, Culprit Lino Rivera bobbed up in a Brooklyn court on a charge of trying to use a tinfoil slug in place of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Promising once more to be good, he was paroled to a city probation officer...