Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After two years of "the law's delay," sentence was last week pronounced. Burrill Ruskay, head of the firm, was found guilty of trading against the account of a customer. He must undergo a prison sentence of from three months to three years. Ruskay has appealed the case, however, so that even this slight punishment has a very theoretical aspect. In spite of the ex-bucketshop keeper's plea that he was penniless, he presented what has been termed a "brisk apearance" in court and seemed to be able to command the services of expensive legal counsel...
Last week their final hope of escaping prison was felled by the decision of President Coolidge not to pardon them. The trial judge and the District Attorney both opposed a pardon...
...later the President commuted one day from each of the sentences. The object of the commutation was not the 24 hours involved, but to bring the sentences just within the limit which permits them to be served in a local prison instead of in a federal penitentiary, Atlanta or Leavenworth...
...urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine him in prison, after one of the most extraordinary trials in English judicial history...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...