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...prosecution settled for a plea of guilty to second-degree manslaughter. Last week when Lena came up for sentencing (maximum term: 15 years), Queens County Judge Peter Farrell paroled her until Feb. 18, with the prospect of full freedom thereafter. She gasped. Outside the court demure Lena Nien stedt, beginning a new life at 25, smiled radiantly. "It's wonderful to see the open sky," she said. All she wanted for the present was a juicy steak, for the future a secretarial job and peace of mind. Then she saw her estranged mother standing near by. Lena...
Vigilante. In St. Louis, police booked Willie Smith for burglary despite his plea that he had entered a liquor store after hours only to chase out two thieves...
Hindsight. In Pittsburgh, Judge Joseph P. Willson disallowed the Pennsylvania Railroad's plea that Gandy Dancer Jesse Q. Casso had obtained his job under false pretenses, ruled that it was the railroad's fault for giving Casso a rating of 20-30 vision in his glass right...
Gratia Artis. In Vienna, Friedrich Karasek was given six years for forgery despite his plea that he regarded painting banknotes as "a new form...
Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...