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...Alphonse Capone," said a Federal attorney in Chicago last week, "in Indictment 22,852 you are charged with attempting to evade and defeat your income taxes. Do you plead guilty or not guilty...
...three weeks, built its nest around the Perfect Swindler. His letterheads and his clichés, it was noticed, were not quite like British officialdom's letterheads and cliches. By April 16, Dr. Owen was in the grasp of efficient British Justice at Bow Street Police Court. "I plead not guilty," cried Swindler Owen, looking Chief Magistrate Sir Chartres Biron in the eye. "I have a perfect answer to these outrageous charges!" He gave the answer last week in Old Bailey, or rather there was no answer. Sentence: four years penal servitude. Next case? "Jake the Barber." About...
...special assistant Attorney General represented New York State. He and his arguments had beaten no less famed an advocate than Representative James Montgomery Beck, counsel for New Jersey. Another victor was Arthur Hilly, corporation counsel for New York City, who appeared before the Supreme Court to plead for enlarged municipal water rights...
...white flag flapping from its flagstaff. As it neared the Carvalho Araujo the cabin opened. Out stepped Rt. Rev. Antonio Emmanuele Pereira Ribeiro, Bishop of Funchal, swaying unsteadily. A rope ladder was dropped. Hand over hand, up went His Reverence, his purple silk skirts flapping about his legs, to plead for the cessation of all hostilities, but Commandante Correia locked himself in his cabin...
Vainly did his attorneys plead for clemency, argue that their client was physically weak, that he lacked the mental calibre for the office of Congressman. U. S. Judge Charles E. Woodward, deaf to entreaties, fined Bribee Rowbottom $2,000, sentenced him to a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary.* Said Judge Woodward to Rowbottom before the bar: "You have betrayed your constituents and cheapened public office. The Court cannot condone the flagrant and cynical barter and sale of public offices. The sentence must be of such nature as to deter other Congressmen from such practices...