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...prisoners in the colony 4,500 never leave the mainland. If the convict is considered incorrigibly dangerous, however, he may be sent to one of the Iles du Salut, high, rocky, mile-long Ile Royale, and there set at hard labor, perhaps even put in an isolated pit. If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph. If he has been convicted of treason, he will probably be sent to live in a hut on the most famous of this trio of islands-the 34-acre, bleak Il du Diable, or Devil...
...next item is a recent addition to the Museum's collection of Romanesque sculpture, a wooden statue of the 12th century. It is an altar figure of the Virgin and Child and it probably comes from the region of the Ile de France...
...which washed out old claims. As soon as that went into effect Oilman Pat Daugherty, who learned about leasing in Texas, hopped into his big old Cadillac, turned up the road to Kettleman, staked out nearly four square miles identical with Ochsner's old claims. He offered to ile them in Ochsner's name in return for a 10% interest, which was legitimate practice, Daugherty knowing land office ropes which Ochsner did not. Indeed, Ochsner tried to file his own claims-after looking at Daugherty's papers-but the land office found them so irregular that...
...Paris' historic Ile St. Louis in a sumptuous old house crammed with exquisite bibelots and first editions lives millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Although intellectually cultivated, refined and suave, M. Blum affects a shaggy and haphazard air. He delights to rush among the Paris rabble and deliver mixed Socialist-Communist harangues. He annoys...
...Negro Ellwood Higginbotham, accused of murdering a white man. After awaiting the jury's verdict for more than 24 hours, an impatient mob had hauled Negro Higginbotham out of jail, hanged him to a tree. ¶In Manhattan, detectives arrested Gustave Freeman when he stepped off the S. S. Ile de France, found in his trunk 100,000 French National Lottery tickets, apparently forged...