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John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...
...Defense Committee, however, soon took issue with Mr. Lovett's league, flayed its founders. Probable reason: The Defense Committee was organized in 1920, at the time of the original arrests, by personal friends of the accused; the Citizens' Committee was founded much later, among intellectual liberals. After their seven-year fight the friends now professed to be "filled with sincere resentment at every attempt to exploit the Sacco-Vanzetti case for selfish political purposes, for personal vanity, for purposes of providing jobs or for any other ulterior purpose...
...prisoner he proved so docile and almost smugly obedient that his seven-year term was reduced automatically to five. Even this was cut down a few days last week by the prison authorities who had reason to think that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...
...last week failed to receive two occupants who were scheduled to move into them. For Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, sentenced to be electrocuted during the week of July 10, were given a one-month respite by Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts to permit further investigation of their seven-year case. A similar respite was also given to one Celestino F. Madeiros, condemned killer, whose testimony is an important factor in the Sacco-Vanzetti investigation...
...Manhattan, by suicide with the revolver he carried in the Spanish War; following two years' nervous illness and rheumatism. Onetime Army major, he also traded on the New York Stock Exchange, selling his seat in 1922 for $98,000. Only one other U. S. tennis champion equals his seven-year title record, R. D. Sears, the first champion...