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...Huskies jumped to a quick one-gaol lead on a freak bounce past Chaune Flynn at 1:44 of the opening period. Second on a pass from Manchester at 12:30, and a three man play, Bray to Patton on the blue line to Wood next to the cage, put the varsity ahead at 1:42 of the middle stanza. Ned Bliss passed out for number three to end the period...
...trial under the Criminal Law Amendment Act. His first trial resulted in a hung jury. At the second, he was found guilty and sentenced to two years at hard labor. A year after his release from prison, he wrote and published anonymously the famed Ballad of Reading Gaol...
...land: no Jew may marry a gentile, no woman may sue for divorce (though the new law provides that if a rabbi decides that a woman has ground for divorce and her husband refuses her one, civil authorities may arrest him and "hold him in gaol until he complies...
...jail, he read a statement to the court: "I have deliberately and willfully committed a breach of the law under which I am charged. This I have done in full knowledge of its implications . . . . I do not plead for mitigation or mercy. I have decided to go to gaol so that my suffering and the suffering of the oppressed people of this land may ultimately bring about the conditions which will make South Africa a happy country for all, regardless of race, colour, or creed...
...citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey and its even older neighbor, Newgate Gaol...