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Last week the Supreme Court of California dashed Billings' hope for release after 14 years' imprisonment when, after a long review of his case, it advised Governor Clement Calhoun Young not to pardon him. Because he was a two-time felon, Billings' application for pardon had, under the law, to be reviewed by the Supreme Court. Mooney on the other hand could and did apply directly to Governor Young. That official had declared that the essential facts were the same in both cases and that his action in each would be guided by the court...
...which he was sentenced. I leave no one there for more than two or three years and after that time the men released are not compelled to live in a certain place. They can dwell in any part of Italy they choose. Every day I receive petitions for pardon and one of them that I have just signed lies before me on my desk at this moment. When my daughter was engaged innumerable appeals of this kind were made, for, as you can understand, that was a period of sentimental excitement. I told my daughter, 'Everyone who makes...
...last interview, Elizabeth gives him a talisman, a ring by means of which he may, if he wishes, secure her pardon. In his last hour, he entrusts this to the Queen's messenger, a court lady whose love he has spurned. She betrays him, informs Elizabeth that he is still arrogant, has made no mention of the token. When the Queen learns the truth, the axe has fallen. As it has cleaved the neck of Essex, so it splits Elizabeth's aged, remorseful heart...
...leave from the Front. The play is obviously contemporary, because it is about War and a tart. Of course, just as our modern stage ladies always turn out in the course of the play to be tarts, so this tart in the last act becomes a lady. (You must pardon the over-use of the word "tart" in this review, but modern literature has made "lady" or even "woman" seem so Victorian...
...this represent the British fleet," said he, pushing forward a whiskey bottle that was in front of him, "and this," placing beside it a soda siphon, "the American fleet. I really beg your pardon, gentlemen, I had no intention of referring to Prohibition. I had no thought of the contents of the bottles when I began the demonstration...