Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DULCARNON-Henry Milner Rideout - Duffield ($1.50). With devious dithering that confuses yet never quite discourages the attention, a mystery is hitched along from Marseilles to Port Said, to Calcutta, to a native prison in the hills, to a river village, to a maharajah's time-encrusted palace in the jungle. Cryptic scribbling in mouldy volumes of Chaucer lead at last to-certain mislaid belongings of the globe-sacking son of Philip of Macedon. Utterly fantastic and gratuitous mystification, with a U. S. adventurer and a rather attractive French wandering man moving in a maze of blind beggars, green lizards...
Whether Colonel Charles Sweeney and other American fliers in Morocco prefer their present occupation* to immunity from $1,000 fine and three years in prison should soon become apparent...
...said to be the worst fate possible in store for the sleepers. It was recalled, however, that a marine of the White Court detail was court-martialed in June for refusing to bathe in the untepid bay near White Court, that his ablutions are now performed in the Navy Prison at Charleston, Mass...
Four Chinese dockyard workmen assaulted a coolie as a conclusion to interchange of insults such as "A plague upon your grandmother." The four assaulters, taken to prison, were followed by a dockyard mob. Police fired, killed two, wounded several...
Without further ceremony, the strange figure was whisked off to Ludlow Street Prison to serve a 30-day sentence...