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...like Illinois Sell Telephone. Western Union, Western Electric, hired whole floors in Loop (downtown) hotels to house their snow-bound workers. Motoring to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia with five prisoners, two deputy sheriffs were engulfed by drifts, had to borrow money from one prisoner to carry the penal party through by rail...
Says Section 211 of the U. S. Penal Code: "Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious, and every filthy book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character ... is hereby declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails. . . ." In April, 1929, Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett was convicted in a Brooklyn Federal court under this statute. She had written and sent through the mails a pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life. Last month her conviction was reversed in the Appellate Division, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In this book she gives...
...Year's Day Mexico adopted a new criminal code abolishing the death penalty for murder, abolishing trial by jury in criminal cases. Before Mexico's First Penal Court last week came Murderers Dionoso ("Diablo") Corono and Pascasio Gonzales, charged with slaying one Jose Valdes, his wife and his daughter. Horrified and excited by testimony that the murders had been committed with extreme and unprintable ferocity, the judges lost their heads, forgot that the new law curtails their powers, and pronounced sentence of death "on these two Devils...
...much if any merit in your confessions which are nothing more or less than the threadbare plea of a clerk who robs his master and hopes to repay before his crime is discovered by backing winners at the races. Clarence Charles Hatry, I sentence you to 14 years in penal servitude...
...CRIMINAL CODE-Arthur Byron in a penal tragedy...