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...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Lynchings Nos. 10 & 11 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...story would not hush. In Parahyba city enraged Liberals burned Republican homes, wrecked Republican stores. Parahyba's police were all inland, fighting Independent José Pereira; 1,000 Federal troops finally were called out to do police duty. In Parahyba gaol 187 convicts banged on the jail doors, begged that they might be released to slit the throats of the murderers of State President Pessoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Pereira, Pessoa, Parahyba | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Elijah Johnson, Negro handler, was caught plugging a piece of sponge into the nostril of Racehorse Sun Mission to shorten his wind, insure his losing. Sun Mission finished third. Elijah Johnson's sentence: 90 days in gaol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Horse Fixer | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...Woodbury, Vt., one William Pickett was apprehended in possession of 60 fingerling trout (legal limit: 25 fish at least 6 in. long). His sentence, passed last week: 664 days in gaol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Trout Hog | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week, one Charles Bronowitz, longshoreman, had some drinks, caught a cat by the tail, swung it around his head a dozen times, let it fly, knocking down a woman. His sentence: 15 days in gaol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cat Swinger | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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