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...character from Cervantes is illiterate Juan March, "richest man in Spain." He rolled up to the yellow stucco Rock Hotel at Gibraltar last week with his jailer and a carload of friends, thumbed his nose at the Government of Spain and went to bed. Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again...
...grew well-to-do running a store and tourist camp at Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told his jailer that since 1920 California's Senator Shortridge and Representative Swing had known he was an escaped convict. Because of his good record for 34 years President Hoover last week gave William Kirby Robinson an unconditional pardon...
...Lubinsky's real name is Lev Davidovitch Bronstein. He is far better known as Leon Trotsky, a name he is variously said to have borrowed from either a Kosher restaurant keeper in New York or his first jailer. Many times during his residence on Prinkipo the exiled Soviet leader has begged permission to travel. Nervous capitalist governments have always refused. Last week with...
...Brown's tiny "army" made their last stand. U. S. Marines finished off the shambles the militia left. During his trial and in the days he waited for the scaffold, old John Brown was at his fanatical best. Few who saw him then thought him insane; even his jailer felt sympathy for him, admired him for the way he bore himself. To a Methodist preacher, a slavery-believer who came to see him, old John Brown said: "My dear sir, you know nothing about Christianity; you will have to learn its A, B and C. I respect...
Four crooks drove up to the Crookston, Minn. county jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most...